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tutwiler diary opener and art from 'The Bugle'

June 12, 2021 Colleges & Universities / Love and romance / Military / Virginia

Lovesick in Blacksburg

Olivia Tutwiler had her pick of the 1919 crop of VPI boys. The baddest of the bad boys there stole her heart. Could she win his?

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diary page and woman writing

May 21, 2019 Diaries / Educators/teachers / Kentucky

Worthy of a place in this cabinet of valuables

Kentuckian Sarah Ann Jackson’s 1835 diary was found between the walls of an old house in Laurel County, KY.

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fulton caldwell home and diary

April 27, 2018 Diaries / Farmers/farming / Ohio

This ends a very favorable April with just about enough rain

“Fulton Caldwell, now a prosperous farmer and a leading citizen, was born on the Caldwell homestead in 1833,” says his 1887 biography.

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