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Mrs. Shoener Sends an Invitation – Pennsylvania (1922)

October 31, 2024 No Comments

(In the Research Notes, the place is identified more specifically as Orwigsburg – a borough in Schuylkill County of east- central Pennsylvania.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwigsburg,_Pennsylvania Last Sunday,

“Charlie Has Not Gone Back to Work” – Pottsville, PA (circa 1910)

July 29, 2024 No Comments

Miss Mabel Schutretter lived in Pottsville, a small city and county seat of Schuylkill County in east-central Pennsylvania. Until the mid-20th century, Pottsville was a

Remembering Coney Island – New York, NY (1907)

October 28, 2022 No Comments

My first understanding of the impact of Coney Island on the imagination of New York City residents came from reading the short stories of O.

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