The estate sale lady had a box of unopened 70 to 80-yr-old cleaning and personal care products (she referred to them as her "originals"). Houses in that neighborhood are all 1920s era and all varying degrees of Large, so there's a lot of places to tuck things away for someone else to find, three homeowners later.
Me and my new potholder visiting Potholder's ancestral home (a boarded up building across the street from a liquor store).
#1034 Henry Summerson (ed) - Crown Pleas of the Devon Eyre of 1238. Devon and Cornwall Record Society, New Series, Volume 28, Exeter, 1985, 1st Edition.
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#1033 Joan Flett - Cherry Tree Hill and the Newbould Legacy. Nether Edge Neighbourhood Group, Local History Section, Sheffield, 1999, 1st edition.
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The internet isn't quite the all-encompassing fount of knowledge that it's sometimes made out to be.
I often do amateur research on local history and there are lots of locally significant places and events which have few or no results on the open internet. You have to manually trawl through newspaper archives etc to get any solid info and these may be missing numbers or locked behind a paywall.
If you are lucky enough to speak to someone who remembers events some time ago, it's clear that there are vast areas of human experience that no one has written up or recorded online.
Port Huron Past & Present: Episode 193 📸🏙️
Blue Water Healthy Living presents Bob Davis’ Port Huron Past & Present, a video series bringing local history to life through rare photos and films.
In this episode: Paige Sales, the Baer Block Fire, Howard Furniture, and more.
👉 Step back in time with this look at Port Huron’s past: https://bluewaterhealthyliving.com/entertainment/port-huron-past-and-present-paige-sales-baer-block-fire-howard-furniture-more-part-193/
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#NYC #streets #history #LocalHistory #QRCodes
'Councilmember Kamillah Hanks, a Democrat who represents the North Shore, introduced legislation that would require the city to generate and install QR codes on all ceremonial street sign poles throughout New York City.'
SILive: QR codes on NYC ceremonial street signs: New bill would create digital archive of honorees. “On Friday, Councilmember Kamillah Hanks, a Democrat who represents the North Shore, introduced legislation that would require the city to generate and install QR codes on all ceremonial street sign poles throughout New York City.”
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