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A Visit To Old Bordeaux

[Due to a blog glitch, I have re-posted this story.]

Last Friday, my aunt Twyla and Uncle Wally Yates, my cousins Edris and Jack Harbeston, my brother Dave Yates and his wife Kathy, and my husband Jim and I, went on a little adventure so Wally could visit “one more time” the old town of Bordeaux [...]

The Baby In The Oven

On April 18, 1889, a tiny bit of a girl was born to Mary Elizabeth and Harvey Lawson Smith at McCammon Cave Farm in Howell County, Missouri. She was so tiny and fragile that she spent the first few months of her life being cared for by her mother, neighbors and friends. Her mother had [...]

Rare Helen Keller - Anne Sullivan Photo Found

You may have seen it in the news or online, but if not, there has been found a previously undiscovered Helen Keller - Anne Sullivan photo found in a collection donated to the NEHGS.

An NEHGS staff member discovered the photograph while combing through a large photography collection recently donated by Thaxter P. Spencer, 87, of [...]