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My Neighbor's Maple Syrup Sugar Shack
There’s a family I know in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia that has made maple syrup for over a century. As they are now short-handed of youngsters leaving for city work and the retainers get older and frailer, I … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, History, Other, West Virginia
Tagged maple syrup, sugar shack
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George Washington’s Stars & Stripes
On hearing an organ playing inside a church last Sunday as I strolled along Trumpington Street in Cambridge, England, I felt drawn inside to listen. It was Little Saint Mary’s Church which sits tightly between the Fitzwilliam Museum and Peterhouse … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged American Flag, Betsy Ross, George Washington, Godfrey Washington, Little St. Mary's Church
