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And the penalty is death.
Student project to think about .......someday we would like to have a small wooden shed to display the blacksmith tools that used to be in an old blacksmith shop on site, with recycled materials found on site.
Check out our Online project of typing letters. We have hundreds of early script letters to type. Send an email to diana_conroy for letters to type. Sign up on GivePulse.
6. Enter Passcode: 1885
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I will post the Zoom link here. Earn 1 hr. Volunteer time.
Zoom meeting set up and hosted by WSU students Aalia Ganie and Rachel Ndombi. Diane Conroy will contribute. Send your email to [email protected] and we will send you a Zoom link. You are welcome!
Online Zoom presentation. Earn 1 hour volunteering, just by joining Zoom, Nov. 20, 6 pm. Description of White Spring Ranch and why we need volunteers to transcribe extensive collection of 4,000 early letters into typed versions. Zoom meeting set up and hosted by WSU students.
....I am so grateful to have had this opportunity with White Spring Ranch. I have always believed that the best leaders are those who don't hesitate to serve, and I am so glad I have gotten to do just that this last month by preserving precious history. Holiday Beyer, WSU"
"Here are those last three letters! Thank you so much for this opportunity--I have enjoyed it more than I can say. It is very powerful to see history through the pen of those who made it, and I just hope I will be able to record my own history so aptly.
how my husband and I correspond with each other. It's amazing to see what's remained static, even though this correspondence was over 100 years ago, versus what has changed.
from her again. Towards the end of his letter, he talks to her as if they're having regular household conversation (asking her about getting her watch back, or at least getting her money back, and telling her not to worry about him). The conversation seemed casual and similar to
and I imagined their writings back and forth to each other. Transcribing this shows how much has changed, but yet how much is similar. Henry spoke of the vaccination he received that hurt so bad, and spoke of how much he missed his fiancee, unsure of when he would receive mail
which is located on Long Island, just about ten minutes from where I was born and raised and have all my childhood memories). My grandparents carried on their relationship through letters that my grandfather sent my grandmother when he enlisted in the Korean War, in the Air Force
VERONICA BLANCATO
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Hours, WSU
September 20, 2020
My Reflection
I was so touched to read and receive this letter to transcribe. Little did I know, the author of this letter, a solider that had just enlisted in WWI, signs off his letter from a town called Garden City, NY
Check out GivePulse.com, you'll see that we have an online project with the collection of letters. You are welcome to type out these interesting 100 + year old letters we found on this site.












