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The life of a pioneer woman was difficult, sometimes brutal, accompanied by deprivation, tragedy and early death.
Her home, at least in the initial stage, was a log cabin where an open fireplace served as the home heating source and also the cooking venue.
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If she was fortunate the cabin had wooden plank floors or flat stones as opposed to dirt. Were there to be household luxuries they would be in the form of a glass window, perhaps two of them.
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USM Researchers Date Timbers from North Mississippi Structure to 1734
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Pictured from left to right: Grant Harley (associate professor University of Idaho); Danny King (undergraduate student University of Idaho); Tommy Patterson (assistant professor USM); Ashley Chasez (graduate student USM); Alyssa Crowell (graduate student USM); Ian Stewart (graduate student USM); David Holt (associate professor USM)
What began with a random phone call became an intense research project that led to remarkable discoveries by a group of professors and students at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM).
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On Dec. 30, 1840, John M. Hopkins, bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Vermont, penned a letter to Bishop Benedict J. Fenwick of the Diocese of Boston. The subject of the letter was the proposed construction of a new Catholic church in Burlington, Vermont. I call your attention, he wrote, to a matter which I think important to the comfort and satisfaction of the Roman Catholic Church in this village, as well as the Church which is under my own pastoral care.
At the time the letter was written, the Catholic Diocese of Boston was expansive, encompassing all New England, yet it was also small in terms of the number of its parishes, priests, and laypeople. It was not unusual for Bishop Fenwick to deal personally with administrative issues as they arose. The letter from Bishop Hopkins merited his careful attention, since it concerned the only extant Catholic parish in Vermont, St. Mary in Burlington.