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“Violet Sends the Moravian Church” – Neffsville, PA (1937)

March 12, 2026 No Comments

Mrs. Arthur Kendrick (Florence) lived in East Orange, a city in Essex County of northeast New jersey. The first European settlement in this area was

Myles Standish House – Boston, Massachusetts (1937)

July 8, 2023 No Comments

Myles (or, Miles) Standish is best-remembered today by those who encountered the poem by Longfellow, “The Courtship of Miles Standish”. The poem is a long

Aerial View of Havana – Cuba (1937)

May 11, 2023 No Comments

Madame La Marr lived in Roadstown, a community in the southwest corner of New Jersey. In the late 19th century, Roadstown had two hundred residents