Author of the article: Beth Wilkins
Publishing date: Jan 11, 2021 • January 11, 2021 • 6 minute read • • 80.1140.002 – It certainly seems to be a D.A. Thomas July 1 excursion on the Peace River, as evidenced by all the people on her decks. The white-attired person in the doorway – possibly a cook, is probably taking a breather before his cuisine-producing skills are required. Photo by SUPPLIED
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The most recent Ponderings ended with a reference to fires being a usual occurrence in the early years of the community. They were a “terrible hazard in those days of tarpaper shacks as they were explosively inflammable. There was no water supply except the rivers, and often there was no way of getting the water to the burning building except by bucket brigade. In sub-zero weather, which was the time most fires occurred from overheated stoves, the ice on the rivers had to be chipped first in order to obtain water.”
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Sunni Patterson and professor at Xavier University Ron Bechet place soil into jars during the unveiling ceremony for the 1900 Mass Lynching in New Orleans historical marker on Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard in New Orleans, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. The soil came from the location where Hannah Mabry was shot and killed in 1900. One jar will stay in New Orleans and the other will go to the National Lynching Memorial in Montgomery, Ala.
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Findview Farm’s Jack Gordon, dies at 73, ‘never gave up’
The longtime dairy farmer died Dec. 13 at age 73.
Courtesy / Jenn Grant
GORHAM Retired dairy farmer Jack Gordon died Sunday, Dec. 13, at age 73 at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough.
Gordon had battled emphysema, according to a daughter, Jenn Grant, but “he never gave up.”
“He fought the illness to the end,” she said.
He and his wife, Carol, had four daughters.
Gordon’s passion was working at his Findview Farm on Mighty Street. The farm has been in his family for a century and he worked the land as had two generations before him.