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Santa and the Puritans by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Santa arriving in Camden. He likes to come by boat when he visits Maine. By this point, you may already have heard the news story about the second grade teacher in Nanuet, NY, who, presenting a...
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The Acadian Expulsion
Grand-Pre, Nova Scotia at the time of the Great Upheaval. Vaughn C. Hardacker here: In my last blog I wrote about one of my more infamous ancestors, Lizzie Andrew Borden (1860 – 1927). The familial...
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History in the Obituaries
Susan Vaughan here. Some people may feel that unless you know someone who has recently passed away, browsing the obituaries in the local newspapers (yes, print media!) is morbid. But I find I can learn...
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Tribute to a WWII Hero
Susan Vaughan here. Veterans Day and the D-Day anniversary have passed, but I’d like to pay tribute to that Greatest Generation, and specifically to my father, Arthur N. Hofstetter. He died in 1993 at...
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Haunted or History
I once lived in a haunted house. No, this isn’t a Halloween post, but a history one. It’s partly my history and that of the farmhouse where I lived for a year as a child. My husband and I recently took...
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