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Discoveries from The Yearbook IV [by M. Fitzgerald]
When it occurred to me that I could look up the names of Donald Hogan, Simeon Osby and Thelma Donnigan on the genealogical site I subscribe to, I hesitated for some time: although I…
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Discoveries from The Yearbook III [by M. Fitzgerald]
Those three photographs nagged at me. The single girl, Thelma. The two boys, Donald and Simeon. Those young faces. Simeon smiles, looking sideways from the camera. But Donald and Thelma look straight at the…
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Discoveries from a Yearbook Part II [by M Fitzgerald]
It was a while before I returned to The Capitoline. By then, I had been on…
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Minor League Baseball on the 4th of July [by Greg Pattenaude]
Steven Wrenn on deck! photo (c) Greg Pattenaude There is something very patriotic about seeing baseball on the 4th of July. And even if you are not a big baseball fan, a visit…
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Mourners [by Alan Ziegler]
Charlotte and Anne without Emily Charlotte without Anne and Emily Don without Phil George without Gracie Groucho, Harpo, Zeppo, and Gummo without ChicoGroucho, Zeppo, and Gummo without Chico and HarpoZeppo and Groucho without Chico, Harpo,…
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Discoveries from a Yearbook [by M. Fitzgerald]
More than a year after a momentous visit to Springfield, Illinois where my father lived his childhood and high school years, Jim Huston, the city librarian with whom I had become friends, sent me…
