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McDowell News
20 Dec 2025
McDowell Beyond 1842 project preserves history
A McDowell County project is preserving local history through a series of interviews with longtime residents and archiving historic photos and documents ... .
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McDowell News
18 Dec 2025
"Beyond 1842" project aims to record McDowell County history through interviews, archive
Through the program, longtime residents can provide their oral histories and talk about what it was like to grow up in the area ... .
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Baltimore Sun
25 Nov 2025
How The Baltimore Sun nudged, needled and turkey-shamed Maryland into adopting Thanksgiving in 1842
Between 1837 and 1842, The Baltimore Sun ran nearly a dozen editorials pressing hard (if at times slyly or tongue-in-cheek) for Maryland’s governor to issue a proclamation making a day of thankfulness a permanent fixture on the state calendar.
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