Lawrence Lore
- Nov 16, 2022
- 2 min
Abe's Cow, Daphne
The following poem was written by Martin Conrad Pinkstaff, who worked at the gas station in Gordon, Illinois. He had been interviewed by...
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Lawrence Lore
- Nov 14, 2022
- 1 min
Child's Hand Car
Look for the above Child's Hand Car in our Vintage Toy Exhibit at the History Center. The researchers found an ad for a similar riding...
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Lawrence Lore
- Nov 11, 2022
- 3 min
Magdalene Fern (Angle) Fleckenstein
Written May 2022 by Julia Randall Most everyone has looked at something old at one time and thought If that item could “talk,” I wonder...
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Lawrence Lore
- Nov 9, 2022
- 3 min
Movers and Shakers
From a book about the English Settlement in Edwards County, Illinois, founded in 1817, John K discovered some interesting black history...
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Lawrence Lore
- Nov 7, 2022
- 2 min
"Bury me under an old oak tree.."
From a copy of letter received from Sarah Gaddey Ridgley by Vera Beard Kirham in 1941. Researchers believe that the grandfather referred...
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Lawrence Lore
- Nov 4, 2022
- 1 min
One Hundred Years Later...
These three wind-up toys are part of our new toy exhibit, Toys from the Attic. They are all made by the Marx Toy Company in New York city...
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