• The Unsolved Murder of William Desmond Taylor

    The Unsolved Murder of William Desmond Taylor

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    Film preservationists began searching for Mary Miles Minter’s work in the 1960s but nothing remained. Greed, scandal and murder were only three of the reasons.

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  • Motel Chains That Didn’t Make It

    Motel Chains That Didn’t Make It

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    As Americans traveled the new national highways in the 1950s and ‘60s, they discovered several motel chains. Some have lasted, but others went defunct in just a few years for many different reasons.

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  • Fences

    Fences

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    The American poet, Robert Frost, wrote, “Good fences make good neighbors.” When he penned that line (1914) did he think about how many kinds of fences would appear in the future? Postcards answer the question and the answer is, “many.”

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Past Article

Ray Hahn
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Sadness touched Fredericksburg, Virginia, earlier than most communities at the start of World War II–two years before the USA was officially involved in the war. It was a fact starkly driven home to me when I stumbled upon the memorial stone to Robert Shenton Harris in the City Cemetery. Robert Shenton Harris, whose father Robert […]

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