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Folks on the Home Front

Letters from the First World War

By: Margaret Porter Griffin

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Folks on the Home Front

Letters from the First World War

By: Margaret Porter Griffin

People living in the Midwest in the years 1916-1919 were experiencing rapid change: the first automobiles, the first airplanes, modern weaponry, and a massive, unified war movement that was nothing like their parents or grandparents had ever seen. A young Indiana National Guardsman, Jesse Covell, began to give glimpses of military life to family and friends in his letters: to one girl, Margaret Beck, in particular. They corresponded as troops were sent to the Mexican border and then to training camps to prepare to go overseas. Everything took more time then: growing their own food and crops, cooking, cleaning house, and going places. They all sat down and wrote what was happening where they were, which included poignant accounts of how Spanish Influenza was affecting almost everyone. Letter writing was an art form from the salutation to the closing, with authors particular about their longhand script. News of home was important to soldiers in camp. Jesse’s brother had forty bushels of potatoes in the cellar…”and they ain’t all dug yet.” His sister was sending maple syrup from trees at the farm to him, and his mother, a homemade cold remedy. There was no cure for the diphtheria which took the lives of two young sisters in a week; neighbors suddenly died, as well as soldiers on U.S. soil and abroad, in the flu epidemic. Sweethearts like Margaret waited and wondered. As they hoped for leaves, there was constant worry about when batteries would be ordered to join the Allied Forces in France. They were planning for the future, but didn’t know what this terrible war would do to change it. On the happy side, they could attend a medicine show, a county fair, a silent Charlie Chaplin movie, or a box social. When they really celebrated on the night of the Armistice, they put together an outrageously decorated truck to drive through the center of town, one shotgun blast after another. Oh, how they loved baseball. Organized teams played in the country at the four corners, but Mother didn’t care for it because they’d hit balls into her field and have to go get them. And they saved everything: old woolen shirts, blossoms from fading lilacs, and of course, the letters, which tell us a story we wouldn’t know otherwise.

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Dog Ear Publishing

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1457557592

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The Amazing Bird Collection of Young Mr. Roosevelt

By: Margaret Porter Griffin

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The Amazing Bird Collection of Young Mr. Roosevelt

By: Margaret Porter Griffin

A historian once said of Theodore Roosevelt's education that it had been "the best kind, for he was both teacher and pupil." by the time he went to Harvard, he had preserved several hundred birds for a collection. How did he become an accomplished scientist at a young age? He: --was curious, always wanting to know more and find out the "why" of things. --learned from playing: imitating animal sounds and habits and making up his own games. --looked up to mentors, including his father, uncles, and a companion of Audubon's. --read deeply from fiction and nonfiction. --continually made observations, filling diaries and notebooks with charts and essays. --sketched nature in letters and notebooks. --took risks, ready to pay the piper if he thought something was worthwhile. --customized learning to his own needs, starting a natural history museum at home when he was eight and inventing a code for bird songs. --studied the real thing, with "being there" experiences in the outdoors. --shared information with family and friends. Look for more in this book, and get to know a unique boy who still inspires others today.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1499037732

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Folks on the Home Front

Letters from the First World War

By: Margaret Porter Griffin

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Blacks Found in the Deeds of Laurens & Newberry Counties, SC, 1785 to 1827

By: Margaret Peckham Motes

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Blacks Found in the Deeds of Laurens & Newberry Counties, SC, 1785 to 1827

By: Margaret Peckham Motes

Listed in deeds of gift, deeds of sale, mortgages, born free and freed.

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210

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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080635156X

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9780806351568

Dangerous Diversion and Toast of the Town

By: Margaret Evans Porter

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Dangerous Diversion and Toast of the Town

By: Margaret Evans Porter

These two Regency romances prove that love, like life, is a stage. In the first, a worldly dancer is swept off her feet by the one man who sees her for who she is. In the second, a handsome earl chooses a mistress--an actress who's never played by "ton" rules. Original.

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Signet

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0451215966

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9780451215963

The Amazing Bird Collection of Young Mr. Roosevelt

By: Margaret Porter Griffin

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Folks on the Home Front

Folks on the Home Front

The Amazing Bird Collection of Young Mr. Roosevelt

The Amazing Bird Collection of Young Mr. Roosevelt

Folks on the Home Front

Folks on the Home Front

Blacks Found in the Deeds of Laurens & Newberry Counties, SC, 1785 to 1827

Blacks Found in the Deeds of Laurens & Newberry Counties, SC, 1785 to 1827

Dangerous Diversion and Toast of the Town

Dangerous Diversion and Toast of the Town

The Amazing Bird Collection of Young Mr. Roosevelt

The Amazing Bird Collection of Young Mr. Roosevelt

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