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Unfurling My Opinion On The Confederate Flag

As a person who didn’t grow up in the South yet has a deep connection to its past via his ancestry, I’d like to unfurl my opinion on the Confederate Flag. First of all, there exists the fallacy of composition which states (paraphrased) that you cannot apply a logical inference

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Home Is Where The Heart Is (The Sanctuary of Genealogy)

“Home is where the heart is.” Not many sayings are truer than that! The keys to truly understanding the true meaning of that proverb are the words home and heart. What emotions and memories do those words stimulate within you? For me home is my sanctuary. Home is the place

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Across the Cumberland Gap

“Across the Cumberland Gap.” The fall leaves brought forth their majesty, all around the hollows of this changing border town. The winds swept through the clean mountain air, plucking out, one by one, the mustardy-red leaves which annually signaled change. The air was crisp, the farmhouses stood tall. Facing north

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The Steamer Sultana Explosion and the Collins Family

This is the story of Joseph Henry Collins (1817-1865) and his eldest son James Robert Collins (1844-1919). The bio of Joseph Henry Collins below is reproduced, in its entirety with permission, from the following Find A Grave memorial. It is also the story of the Steamer Sultana, the worst maritime

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