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Mourning a tree in blossom
Read More(May 2020, Geneva, Ohio) Its five main limbs resembled the biceps of a circus weightlifter. They emerged from the low-set trunk just a few inches above the former orchard’s soil; twenty-inches in diameter at their widest, the limbs rose like a worshiper’s arms and terminated…
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American Penmanship’s father had a famous daughter, too
Read MoreEllen Spencer Mussey: The Father of Penmanship’s Trail-Blazing Daughter Ellen Spencer was but 12 years old when she went to work in the penmanship school of her famous father, Platt R. Spencer of Geneva. She was the youngest penmanship teacher in Ohio, and her father,…
