TweetMiss A. Rhoda walked into Milwaukee ‘s Kopf Pharmacy on October 21, 1897. She ordered one bottle of Best Tonic , which cost her twenty-five cents. The Hugo S. Kopf Pharmacy, located at 78 Juneau Avenue, was one of many pharmacies that sold the Pabst Tonic. The customers were middle class women who would not […]
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Cressy Spent His Early Years in Wrentham, Massachusetts
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A. Cressy Morrison
TweetCressy spent his early years on the farm of his grandfather, General Lucas Pond. The house was built between 1823 and 1825, was enlarged over many years later. It contained twenty rooms and five fireplaces. Virgil Pond, Cressy’s Uncle, in 1900 donated the house to the King’s Daughters and Sons of Norfolk County. The house […]
Read MoreHow I Began My Search for Cressy
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A. Cressy Morrison
TweetAs I drove south from Boston on Interstate 95 that fall morning, I thought how remote this section of southern Massachusetts appears. It is not far from the Rhode Island line. My goal was the small southeast town of Wrentham, Massachusetts. On the main road of Wrentham all I could see was how rural this […]
Read MoreWant the Book to be Narrative Nonfiction
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Narrative nonfiction
TweetA few weeks ago another writer recommended I read Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts. The book centers on a Chicago family whose father is sent to Germany as the US Ambassador in the early 1930s, just as the menace of Nazism is emerging. I just started reading the book yesterday. Larson uses historical […]
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