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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…
Clara and the Language of Stamps
Clara was missing her friend, Elizabeth, who might as well have been a thousand miles away. Though Elizabeth was living in nearby Piqua, a stretch of about thirty miles from Dayton, the trip by Western Ohio’s interurban trolley would be an all day affair in 1907. Besides there were so many chores at hand and…
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