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		<title>Joplin Hollow</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2020 20:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m really fortunate that my father decided to document stories about his family. Over a period of about 8 years, he wrote the stories, and I put together the finished product. Joplin Hollow is the result, a collection of family stories, personal memories, and music. We printed about 50 hard copies for family and friends, ... <a title="Joplin Hollow" class="read-more" href="https://lesliedare.com/joplin-hollow-launch/" aria-label="Read more about Joplin Hollow">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mystery Great-Great-Grandmother</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2017 01:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This photo of a young woman standing by a chair is believed to be my great-great-grandmother. The problem is that I don't know whether it is through the Jameson line, or the Rigg line.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Escape to Her Grandfather&#8217;s Ferry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2016 03:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This photo is from &#8220;Album of Virginia, Plate 26, Kanawha Fall. Edward Beyer, 1858&#8221; &#8211;  the time period is very close to the time of this story, which refers to a period between 1847 (Nancy Montgomery Rigg&#8217;s birth) and 1852 (the death of her grandfather Henry Montgomery). Frances Folsom Farley (1886-1076), known as &#8220;Aunt Aggie&#8221; to ... <a title="Escape to Her Grandfather&#8217;s Ferry" class="read-more" href="https://lesliedare.com/escape-grandfathers-ferry/" aria-label="Read more about Escape to Her Grandfather&#8217;s Ferry">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Basketball in the Family</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2016 09:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today is my paternal grandmother&#8217;s birthday; Audrey Vellence Hale was born on June 6, 1908. In this really fabulous photo, she is posing in her basketball uniform for Winding Gulf High School. Family lore is that she is turned to the side to hide a shiner received in a game a day or two preceding this ... <a title="Basketball in the Family" class="read-more" href="https://lesliedare.com/basketball-in-the-family/" aria-label="Read more about Basketball in the Family">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Thomas Hardeman</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2016 02:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thomas Hardeman (1750 &#8211; 1833) was born in Virginia and served in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. He moved his family to Tennessee where he served as the first county clerk. Hardeman County is named after him. He later moved to Georgia and other locales, eventually settling in Texas with his family, where he ... <a title="Thomas Hardeman" class="read-more" href="https://lesliedare.com/thomas-hardeman/" aria-label="Read more about Thomas Hardeman">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bible of Malinda Jane Belcher</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2016 11:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Malinda Jane Belcher (1858-1933) was my 2nd great grandmother on my mother&#8217;s side. I don&#8217;t have the full Bible, but rather just the internal family history pages. They are in very poor shape, with tears, holes, bleeding ink and cellophane tape obscuring much of the pertinent detail. I would assume professional archivists would be able ... <a title="Bible of Malinda Jane Belcher" class="read-more" href="https://lesliedare.com/bible-of-malinda-jane-belcher/" aria-label="Read more about Bible of Malinda Jane Belcher">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Football in the Family</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2016 01:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, my mother-in-law gathered photos of her sons&#8217; grandfathers (with their football teams) and had them professionally cleaned up and enlarged, suitable for framing. My husband and I were inspired to expand on the idea by assembling a collection of photos (portraits and sports both) of grandparents on both sides of the family. I was able to ... <a title="Football in the Family" class="read-more" href="https://lesliedare.com/football-in-the-family/" aria-label="Read more about Football in the Family">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bible of Anna V. Atchley Bryan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2016 12:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Anna V. Atchley (1854-1943, known as &#8220;Annie&#8221;) married Albert Bryan (1854-1926) on 25 January 1888 in Port Murray, New Jersey. Annie and Albert are my husband&#8217;s great-grandparents. This Bible was a gift from her father-in-law, George Mitchell Bryan (1820-1914) and handed down through the family. The traditional center pages used to document family lines are ... <a title="Bible of Anna V. Atchley Bryan" class="read-more" href="https://lesliedare.com/bible-of-anna-v-atchley-bryan/" aria-label="Read more about Bible of Anna V. Atchley Bryan">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the Tech Blog?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2016 13:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I previously used lesliedare.com as home base for a work-related blog on Student Affairs Technology. I haven&#8217;t posted to it in years but it&#8217;s still online at: https://lesliedare.com/satech]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rigg Water Pitcher</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2016 08:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This 19th century water pitcher is one of the more interesting of our family artifacts to survive to the 21st century. It appears to be made of clay; it weighs 10 pounds on the nose and is about 13 inches tall. It originates from the Rigg family in Kanawha Falls, and was also used by the Farley ... <a title="Rigg Water Pitcher" class="read-more" href="https://lesliedare.com/rigg-water-pitcher/" aria-label="Read more about Rigg Water Pitcher">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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