Pandemics & the way things used to be
“In March 1843 the Influenza appeared in Germany and England; in April in France; in June in the New England States and New York; in July in Pennsylvania and a portion of the Southern States;…
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Bringing home the boys of the 28th Wisconsin
I was searching for something unrelated when I came across a collection of 20 carte-de-visite portraits of Civil War soldiers in a 1917 edition of the Oregon Daily Journal. According to the short article, the…
Unburied Treasure: The Adventures of Preston Horner
In some ways, Preston Horner is a strange place to begin this blog. But then again, everything about this story is extraordinary, and I suppose that’s why it needs to be told. I’ve been researching…