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When I started out as a personal historian, all the old pros told me, “Do a pilot project. You won’t regret it.” So, I dutifully set out to find a willing subject. I guess I took the assignment too literally because I did find a pilot who had transitioned smoothly from being a Vietnam wartime …
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by Connie Shipley In the past year, I have gone through many distinct steps organizing my time and energy to gather information about my great-grandfather. In this article, I want to share some sources you may not realize are at your fingertips to help you put your own life story together, or that of people …
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A biography of Col. Goss by Nancy Burkhalter The Business Of War Mention tear gas, and everyone has an opinion. But few know about one man behind its proliferation. His biography, Gas Man and Great White Hunter Byron C. Goss: A Biography, tells the story of Colonel Byron Cassius Goss, who played a key role …
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by Maia Fischler A Idea Whose Time Had Come When Hal Schudel got his PhD in agriculture in the early 1950s, Christmas trees were very different from what we know now. Most people opened their presents around scraggly trees that they cut themselves in the forest. A couple of companies were providing wild trees from …
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