By Margaret Barnette If you don't know your past, you don't know your future – Bob Marley, “Tomorrow People,” 1988   Family heritage is something that has always intrigued me.  My parents gave me a foundation and a healthy understanding.  Yet in my busy life it ...

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A poem read by Elder James Buckner at the SMDPA Annual Thanksgiving and Worship Dinner on 11/18/2023. (Author Unknown) ‘TWAS THE NIGHT OF THANKSGIVING ‘Twas the night of Thanksgiving, But I just couldn’t sleep. I tried counting backwards, I tried counting sheep. The leftovers...

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By Heather Horton America's oldest wooden house-the 1638 Braman-Northnagle House in Gibbstwon, NJ The oldest surviving homes of the Mayflower Pilgrims are those of their children-the Jabez Howland House in Plymouth, Massachusetts and the John Alden House in Duxbury, Massachusetts. However, th...

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By Sharyn Davis If your love of genealogy and history has landed you in some overgrown, run-down cemeteries with unmaintained and broken headstones, and you find yourself saying, “What can I do about this?” here is a suggestion. Check out Atlas Preservation, a family-owned company from ...

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