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  • Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land . . . Literally!

    Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land . . . Literally!

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    The Liberty Bell tours have been a matter of interest for decades. Some weeks ago Postcard History featured an article about the suffrage liberty bell and the stops it made along the highways of America. Now, with the help of our newest contributor Judi Kearney we take a second look at the original bell and…

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Past Article

Bill Burton

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Maude Adams (not Maud Adams the Bond Girl, she doesn’t have the “e”) was an astonishingly successful stage actor who burst onto the New York stage in 1896 with J. M. Barrie’s The Little Minister and in 1905 played the title role in Barrie’s Peter Pan. Alphonse Mucha painted her. She toured with her own troupe and retired in 1918 from the effects of the Great Influenza Epidemic.

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