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Pioneer Profiles

Epidemics – by Carolyn Kingsnorth

Pioneer Profiles – November 2021 – Published online-only

It’s November and flu season is upon us!  We’re fortunate that our annual flu shots help protect us against such virulent strains as the “Spanish Influenza” that beset […]

Love and a Wad of Chewing Gum – by Carolyn Kingsnorth

Pioneer Profiles – June 2021

Our March Pioneer Profile focused on “Hired Girls,” described by Helen Colvig Cook as an institution of the “by-gone era” when she was growing up in Jacksonville’s Colvig household in the […]

“Hired Girls” – by Carolyn Kingsnorth

Pioneer Profiles – April 2021

I recently came across a March 1862 letter that Cornelius Beekman wrote to his parents in New York. After talking about how tough the winter had been locally, he wrote, “I […]

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