Our first history program of the year will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 4, at 7 p.m., at the Vernon County History Center in ...
My neighbor told me of her mother, who as a young girl working on her family’s farm in Illinois looked up from her work in the field one day to see President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train ...
On a windy day in the late winter of 1861, Abraham Lincoln ... stepped off the train. Sherry, whom Gorrecht identified as a “recognized town character,’’ grasped the ex-president’s hand ...
WASHOUGAL — Doctors said he might live for months, but Genia Stemper’s father lasted just four days after his sudden, shocking diagnosis of stage 4 cancer.
On the night before the funeral, I went to the Capitol Rotunda, where Carter lay in state atop Lincoln’s catafalque ... Many were born after Carter was president. I found this a source of ...
As a youth, she dreamed of becoming a nurse and would graduate in 1941 from the Lincoln School for ... her biography states. President George W. Bush awarded her the Congressional Gold Medal in 2007.
Goodwin House Alexandria hosted a panel on Jan. 30, honoring the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. through the ...
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, lifelong Amityville resident and trailblazing U. S. Army veteran, dies at 104
In January 2019, the Amityville School District paid tribute to Nancy Leftenant-Colon, renaming the high school’s media ...
An Abraham Lincoln historian who’s working on a documentary about the Great Emancipator’s Funeral Train will give a talk to ...
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