FREDERICKTOWN — One of the fun things about new technologies is people like to play with them and see what they can make the new gadgets do. That has given us a great photographic record of the mid to late 1800s, the early years of photography. Amateur and professional photographers both roamed the countryside to […]
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Mount Vernon operator connects Civil War-era Fort Fizzle to 1930 Cleveland murder
MOUNT VERNON — Everything is connected. What I like to do for these History Knox columns is to find unexpected, forgotten threads and then follow them to see what connections can be discovered. This week’s adventure will take us from an armed insurrection during the Civil War to a mysterious murder in Depression-era Cleveland, by […]
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A Malabar Farm legacy comes to an end
LUCAS — It was the second time I talked to Ellen Bromfield Geld that a chill ran up my back. The first time I talked to the youngest daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning Mansfield author and conservationist Louis Bromfield, it started formally. The year was 2006 and I was then employed at Malabar Farm State Park, […]