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Continue reading →: Another Holiday in the BooksAbout Thanksgiving Today is the day after the U.S. holiday called Thanksgiving. It’s got quite a history, good and bad, especially if you look at its origins from the perspective of Native Americans. One of the blogs I read, largely to increase my understanding of American History, is the daily…
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Continue reading →: Notable WomenWhen I blog, I try not to make my posts too long because I actually want them to be read. I recently blogged about a lovely biography of Dr. Perkins … but wait, there’s more to the story! I was quite intrigued to learn that two of Dr. Perkins’ closest…
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Continue reading →: A Good and Noble ThingI grew up in a wonderful rural area in upstate New York. Where we lived was called “the hilltowns.” We were only about a half hour away from the capital city of Albany, but the difference was significant in terms of lifestyle. Living there meant we always got more snow…
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Continue reading →: A Scholarly EventI attended a conference this weekend at the wonderful Green Acre Centre of Learning in Eliot, Maine. Making time to attend this particular conference was my birthday present to myself (yes, I’m getting better at self-care). This was the first conference sponsored by the newly established Corinne True Center for…




