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Friday, September 30, 2011

A Death in the Ozarks, March 1928

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This picture is a deeply sad one. It shows my grandmother and grandfather burying a son, John Lewis Durning, who died at the age of 17 on M...
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Monday, September 19, 2011

Finding M. W. Fodor: Fulbright, Vienna, and Me

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The Road to M. W. Fodor You have probably never heard of M.W. Fodor, a foreign correspondent in Vienna from about 1919 until the Ansch...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

The Five Best Things about Birch Bay, Washington

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Living in a small resort community in the extreme northwest of the U.S., I like to think about the good things that come with life here. Aft...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

Pauline Davis Steele, Fayetteville (Arkansas) Educator and Evangelist

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Pauline Steele, or Mrs. Steele as we knew her, was my favorite teacher at Jefferson elementary school, barely edging out Mr. Trahin (third g...
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Friday, September 9, 2011

Lavender Dog Biscuits Forever!

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Last year while visiting Friday Harbor on San Juan Island (Washington state), I found myself in a type of store that I had never seen befo...
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Thursday, September 8, 2011

How One Can Lose One's Way in the Primeval Forest: Pioneer Tales of Arkansas' German Immigrants

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Arkansas Echo January 12, 1894 (Note the following is one of a series of Pioneer Tales published during 1893 and 1984 in the Arkan...
Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Greenland, Arkansas in the Late 1930s

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In the late 1960s and 1970s, I drove through the small town of Greenland, on the southern edge of Fayetteville, just past the airport, doz...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

County Fairs Past and Present: Death-Defying Rides and Nifty Quilts

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From about the fifth to the ninth grades, the Washington County Fair was one of the highlights of the year. What's not to like: first a ...