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Little Maude and the Poem
On Friday, May 2 of 1919, little Maude arrived at the Union Protestant Infirmary, part of Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore Maryland. She was only twelve years old and had never been so far from her Tennessee home. Maude would spend the next nine months in the care of the Johns Hopkins medical team with…
Eva and the deer keeper’s lodge: Part One
Who has two clues and loves a mystery? This girl. I’ve got a two-parter for this family story, in which we’ll look into the 200 year-old question: was Eva Wampler Kinsey buried in an unmarked family plot on the grounds at the Dayton National Cemetery — a half century before the first civil war soldier…
Johnny and his dog
This bit of Dayton history is a reblog from a post on our sister site, Raising a Super Dog, that I published a while back. And by a while back, it’s possible I may mean about ten years ago or so. I’ll publish the story as it happened back then, complete with photos. At the…
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