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Parkesburg Find It Friday Winner

Happy Mother’s Day Parkesburg! Building on the work of Julia Ward Howe in the 1870’s and Anna Jarvis 40 years later, President Woodrow Wilson designated the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day in 1914. Since life comes with no … Continue reading

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Malvern’s Mass Grave Of Immigrants Described By New York Times

Patti and I spent the weekend in Washington celebrating Patti’s xxth birthday (you’ll have to ask her how many!).  After visiting the National Zoo on Friday and taking in the Newseum and Holocaust Museum on Saturday we were both exhausted … Continue reading

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Parkesburg Find It Friday Winner

The Amtrak station on South Culvert Street, where the bench pictured in this week’s Find It Friday, is somewhat of a treasure in town. According to Amtrak’s Great Station Site: A station building was constructed in 1905, but it later … Continue reading

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