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Have Civil War documents? Get them scanned in Gloucester
Who's on Team Gloucester?Representatives from the Library of Virginia will be in Gloucester on Dec. 11 to scan Civil War-era documents. Of particular interest are documents from 1859-67 that reflect social, political, military, business and religious life in Virginia during the...Tags: U.S. Postal Service, Gloucester (Gloucester, Virginia), Wars and Interventions, Dollar General Corporation, Gloucester County
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Obama's wreaths: Afro-Amer., Confed.
The Swampby Mark Silva Today, there were wreaths to go around. Several dozen professors had called upon the first African-American president to forgo a Memorial Day tradition of laying a wreath at a monument to Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery,....Tags: Holidays, Family, Barack Obama, Social Issues, Minority Groups
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A right and proper death of the euro
William PfaffPARIS -- When the proposal was initially made for a common European currency, it seemed to this writer to be a good idea, with the flaw that it wouldn't work. Although inexpert in economics (being a product of the age of arithmetic), it struck me as an...Tags: European Union, Politics, Nazi Party, Tea Party Movement, William Pfaff
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History book author to speak in Keedysville
Hagerstown author Preston “Toby” Law will speak to the Keedysville Historical Society on Monday at 7 p.m. at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, 53 N. Main St., Keedysville. Law will discuss his new book, “Drummer Boy for the Bonnie Blue,...
Tags: Human Interest, Religion and Belief, Authors, Culture, Christianity
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Minstrel show scheduled for this weekend
The Clear Spring Lions Club will hold its 62nd annual Minstrel/Variety Show Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. at Clear Spring High School. Tickets cost $6 for adults, $4 for students and children, and are free for preschoolers. ...Tags: Spaghetti, Schools, Auction Service, Religion and Belief, Lifestyle and Leisure
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'Hearts at War' planned at museum
Kelly Hancock, museum educator for the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va., will present a collection of wartime love letters, valentines and home-made items of affection during a presentation Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Washington County Museum...Tags: Politics, Arts, Lobbying, Authors, Wars and Interventions
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A young survivor of genocide takes her message around the world
At 24, Clemantine Wamariya knows more about trauma and survival than most of us ever will. If we're lucky. When Wamariya was 6, she and her sister were forced to flee the ethnic killings in Rwanda, spending the next several years in a series of African...
Tags: Refugee, Human Interest, Politics, Barack Obama, Genocide
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Historical society ¿ mission, tragedy and growth
The annual meeting of the Washington County Historical Society in January 1967 featured a presentation on the Mason-Dixon Line, which described he hardships experienced by the surveyors as they passed through the mountainous portions of the terrain and...Tags: Human Interest, War of 1812, Manufacturing and Engineering, Sociology, Wars and Interventions
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Commemorating Anitetam through art, artifacts
By Rebecca Massie Lane Special to The Herald-Mail Our region and nation have been forever imprinted by the events of the Battle of Antietam: the unimaginable loss of life, the visits by President Abraham Lincoln and the subsequent chain of events...Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture, Abraham Lincoln, Wars and Interventions, Museums
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Remembering big loss of 'humanity'
The centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic was in April (the topic of two recent columns). But we also just marked another important date in the history of transportation. It was 75 years ago this month that the airship Hindenberg burst into...Tags: Nazi Party, Sinking of the Titanic (1912), Lynn University, Pompano Beach, Abraham Lincoln
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Historian and railroader to present Civil War lecture
John P. Hankey will present a lecture titled “Railroads and the American Civil War” at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts Sunday at 2:30 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public. The Friends of the Library will host a reception...Tags: Walnuts, Travel, Railway Transportation, Transportation, Arts and Culture
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How Dunker Church was saved
The Washington County Historical Society presented the Antietam National Battlefield Park with two significant gifts. In the 1950s, purchase of the Dunker Church and gifting of the church and the Burnside Bridge were made possible through the work of...
Tags: Human Interest, John Bell, Religion and Belief, Sociology, Wars and Interventions
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