July 16, 2025
Tag: Amy Crawford
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Centuries of Navigation
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In a recent (September 2019) Smithsonian Magazine article authored by Amy Crawford, a freelance journalist from Michigan who writes on a wide variety of topics, we find the perfect text to accompany a set of wondrous postcards published in Germany close to nine decades ago. This set of cards is the largest I know about. There are…
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September 20, 2020 3 Comments
In The Andy Griffith Show (an American situation comedy television show that aired on CBS from October 3, 1960, to April 1, 1968) the fictional town of Mayberry was based on Mount Airy, North Carolina. Mount Airy was the birthplace of actor Andy Griffith, but as Sheriff Andy Taylor he lived in Mayberry. He worked with his deputy […]