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Remembrances: Rural Free Delivery

by president emerita Sylvia Henricks The goal of RFD (Rural Free Delivery), “Everyman’s mail to Everyman’s door,” was a new idea in the late 1800s, but one that John Wanamaker, President Benjamin Harrison’s Postmaster General fully supported. Congress did not…
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Remembrances: Bunker Hill Class Photo

Today, we bring you one of Sylvia Henricks’ “Remembrances.” You can read more of Sylvia’s columns weekly in The Franklin Township Informer, or in her book From The Ash Grove. Mary Ann Alspaugh Weddle was a student at Bunker Hill in the…
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Remembrances: Bunker Hill School, part 2

Today, we bring you one of Sylvia Henricks’ “Remembrances.” You can read more of Sylvia’s columns weekly in The Franklin Township Informer, or in her book From The Ash Grove. As Woody Wooden continues his reminiscence of the first Bunker Hill School…
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Remembrances: Bunker Hill School, part 1

Today, we bring you one of Sylvia Henricks’ “Remembrances.” You can read more of Sylvia’s columns weekly in The Franklin Township Informer, or in her book From The Ash Grove. In a recent email to the Informer township resident Woody Wooden reminisced…
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Remembrances: The FTHS

Today, we bring you one of Sylvia Henricks’ “Remembrances.” You can read more of Sylvia’s columns weekly in The Franklin Township Informer, or in her book From The Ash Grove. The members of the Franklin Township Historical Society are beginning the 37th…
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Remembrances: Happiness Cake

Today, we bring you one of Sylvia Henricks’ “Remembrances.” You can read more of Sylvia’s columns weekly in The Franklin Township Informer, or in her book From The Ash Grove. Advice is probably the most universally available commodity. It comes in all…
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Remembrances: Ray D. Everson

Today, we bring you one of Sylvia Henricks’ “Remembrances.” You can read more of Sylvia’s columns weekly in The Franklin Township Informer, or in her book From The Ash Grove. Until a few years ago, before John and Carolyn Kanouse…
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Remembrances: Colloquialisms

Today, we bring you one of Sylvia Henricks’ “Remembrances.” You can read more of Sylvia’s columns weekly in The Franklin Township Informer, or in her book From The Ash Grove. Not long ago I had to have a new pump put in…
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Remembrances: Big Run Cemetery, Part 3

Today, we bring you one of Sylvia Henricks’ “Remembrances.” You can read more of Sylvia’s columns weekly in The Franklin Township Informer, or in her book From The Ash Grove. Among the papers, documents and church books given to the Township Historical…
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Remembrances: Big Run Cemetery, part 2

  Today, we bring you one of Sylvia Henricks’ “Remembrances.” You can read more of Sylvia’s columns weekly in The Franklin Township Informer, or in her book From The Ash Grove. Continuing Dana Crapo’s research on the history of the…
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