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Saturday nature walks: Bluebirds and wildlife watching part of free outdoor events
Feb. 16 is your chance to take a nice nature walk in upper York County and James City County. Both nature walks encompass information about bluebirds, which are beginning to look for nesting places, so you can learn how to attract bluebirds to your own...
Tags: York (York, Pennsylvania), Wars and Interventions, James City County, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Camp Peary (military base)
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Former Aberdeen radio personality writes book about U.S. presidents
To help get to sleep at night, Bill Hild sometimes delivers a silent lecture in his mind. Like a teacher in class, he’ll discuss a subject such as the best U.S. presidents, or the greatest hitters on each Major League Baseball team from 1950...Tags: Politics, Presidents of the United States, Entertainment, Zachary Taylor, Radio
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Looted court records return after 150 years
Nobody knows exactly how many deeds, wills and other legal records might have been stored in the old Warwick County courthouse when the Civil War started. But by the time the conflict ended in 1865, the single most comprehensive source of information...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Arts and Culture, Libraries, Justice System, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Civil War spawns huge Hampton hospital
Few American armies have been more humbled by the reality of war than the Army of the Potomac during its summer 1862 march up the Peninsula from Fort Monroe to Richmond. When its blue-clad legions landed at Old Point Comfort in March, it was the largest...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Arts and Culture, Career and Workplace, The New York Times, Fort Monroe
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THE CIVIL WAR: The Seven Days Battle
While Union forces were making headlines pushing the rebels south through Kentucky and Tennessee in early 1862, Gen. George McClellan finally put his vaunted Army of the Potomac in the field in March, sending it by ship to Virginia with the intention of...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), Union (McHenry, Illinois), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Illinois Governor
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Local author-historians bring Yorktown siege to life
“Yorktown’s Civil War Siege: Drums Along the Warwick,” offers enough information in the less than 200-page book to keep you interested even if you’re not a Civil War history buff. The book, published this year, is co-authored by...
Tags: Authors, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Book
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Civil War at 150: The Peninsula Campaign
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Robert E. Lee's Civil War
Tribune staff reporterCome see the Civil War as Robert E. Lee saw it. Ken Burns' public television series on the conflict, the movie "Gettysburg" and the historical novels of Michael and Jeff Shaara have generated a new birth of fascination with the Civil War in recent years....Tags: Social Issues, Arts and Culture, Politics, Career and Workplace, Armed Forces
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