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In the Words of Roy Fitzgerald

Posted on July 11, 2014 by Lisa Rickey

Roy G. Fitzgerald, Sr., jotted the following lines at the end of a letter to the editor of the Dayton Journal-Herald newspaper on June 15, 1949, after describing a number of items recently donated to the Dayton & Montgomery County Historical … Continue reading →

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Boxplorations: Stumbling upon Home in a WWI letter

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Lisa Rickey

We usually try to write our blog posts without using too many first-person pronouns, but today I must deviate from that rule of thumb or else I would have no sensible way to share what I’d like to share with … Continue reading →

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