Oops Wrong Again
Program is the April 22, the fourth Monday of the month as usual, NOT April 29. (Wine should not be enjoyed while writing the blog)
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Apr 14, 20241 min read
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OOPS Wrong Night
The blog about the Owl program was pushed out today instead of next Sunday. The program is NOT tomorrow night but April 29, a week from...
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Apr 14, 20241 min read
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Tomorrow Night-Owls
"LOCAL WILDLIFE" TO BE TOPIC AT NEXT HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEETING A program on local wildlife (the four-legged and feathered variety) will...
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Apr 14, 20241 min read
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163 years ago
April 12, 1861 South Carolina seceded from the Union. A week later President Lincoln called for 75,000 troops to enlist for 3 months. At...
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Apr 12, 20241 min read
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Digitizing Bridgeport Leader Newspapers
Thanks to the Lawrence County Public Library for funding a great project—the digitizing of twenty years of the Bridgeport Leader...
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Apr 11, 20241 min read
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Stage Coach Driver
CHARLES W. ACKMAN was born in the Blue Grass regions of Kentucky, in 1828. In 1851 he came to this State by stage. After his first...
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Apr 10, 20242 min read
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Youngest Volunteer WWII
James Harold Bailey became one of the youngest, if not the youngest, Army volunteer inducted by the local board as reported by the...
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Apr 9, 20242 min read
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BTHS AG Teacher
John C Baker was born August 18, 1922, in Equality, Gallatin County, although his obituary said he was born in Saline County. He was the...
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Apr 8, 20241 min read
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Smile. . .
Eddie (1860-1936) and Louella Waggoner Baker ( ?-1951) brought three of their five children their spouses and grandchildren together in...
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Apr 5, 20241 min read
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charivari: a noisy serenade
The editor of the Sumner Press wrote a remembrance Miss Mary Small only daughter of William Small, one of the first settlers of Lawrence...
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Apr 4, 20241 min read
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