We celebrate Thanksgiving this week as a nation. George Washington was the first to set aside a day of national Thanksgiving in 1789. His proclamation began with these words: Mark Plemmons' Friday ...

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It contained dramatic changes to state government which we will discuss at another sitting, but the big headline was the ...

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Mont Amoena Female Seminary before and after the fire that destroyed the building on Thanksgiving night in 1911.

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