My birthday is tens of september, 23. Where were you born . Where was i born . I was born in virginia. Well you will you tell me brief information about your family . Where did your family come from . Well, they are primarily from the english continent. My mother is welsh. But my wife primarily didnt analysis of where we are we have a book of to a certain point. We cant go much much further. Were about to about 1760. I can show it to you before you leave. Sure. I was born on the farm my dad raised tobacco corn and cows. I was born there there were seven children. Three girls that were older than i, two boys that were older than i and one daughter that was younger than i. They are now all deceased now. Okay. And you are part of the chosen few association. Which means you are at the chosen reservoir in the korean war is that right . Thats correct. Were you part of the marine corps . Yes i was. That means you enlisted yourself. You are not drafted. That is correct. Then line where when di
So im going to tell some stories, and you oregonians may know some of the stories, and you may not know others. But ill start with how i came to this story. And, actually, whats surprising about it is how this story was very well known in its day. In 1836 when Washington Irving was commissioned by John Jacob Astor to write the story of these events 20 years after they occurred, irvings book, also called astoria, was a best seller of 1836. And those events have been largely forgotten in the american consciousness. I think you in oregon know a little bit more about them or im sure some of you know a lot more about them. But in the national consciousness, theyre largely forgotten, except among historians and people who really follow western history. So it is a really important story. Its historically significant, and its a great adventure story. And thats partly what attracted me to it. And its also a story that i feel needs to be told because those events have had a big impact on the sha
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The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) and the Town of East Greenwich announced Monday the permanent conservation of 39.86-acres known as the Pine-Lister Farm property on Tillinghast Road in the Frenchtown neighborhood of East Green