March 21, 2025
Tag: RIsing Sun Delaware
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Postcards of My Boyhood Home by Pat Dyer
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Hometown postcard collectors dream of finding postcards showing their childhood home. I was excited to find such a card while at a local auction house. I saw a real-photo card with a caption, “Rising Sun, Del.” in the bottom left corner. Rising Sun is home to a couple hundred people. It is an unincorporated village…
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December 5, 2021 2 Comments
The concept of temperance may be defined as life without alcohol or abstinence from alcoholic drink. The first vestiges of “temperance” appeared in the early 19th century when the average American was drinking seven gallons of alcohol each year.
Temperance enthusiasts said that drinking led to violence. They were right, but temperance as a social experiment failed. Miserably!