Author of the article: Meghan Balogh
Publishing date: Apr 16, 2021  â¢Â 5 hours ago  â¢Â 4 minute read
Nancy Kimmett holds a photograph of the First World War-era aviation hospital that is now her home on Gold Wing Ranch in Deseronto. The Kimmett farm, in her husband's family for generations, is the former site of the Royal Flying Corps aviation training facility, Camp Rathbun. Photo by Meghan Balogh /The Whig-Standard
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When Nancy Kimmett looks out across the farm fields outside her Deseronto home, she sees fragments of the past.
That home, now refinished, was once a First World War airfield hospital, used to treat the injured pilots-in-training who once landed aircraft on the fields that now produce the crops her family grows.