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Preserving the past: Terry Shipman works to restore his old, old house
Bringing the late 19th century to 2021
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Frank Fellone
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Today at 1:34 a.m.
Much has been done on Newark’s Dearing house since Terry Shipman retired in 2012, but much work remains. The house was put on the National Register of Historical Places in 1976. It was built in 1890 and in 1901 moved from his original site in Akron, two miles to a higher point in Newark. Both are in Independence County.
NEWARK T.H. Dearing and his maternal grandson, Terry Shipman, share a trait.
Call it perseverance.
Dearing was born in 1865, a tough time to be a child of the new South. He was orphaned and kidnapped. Family lore has it that as a child he was once traded for a shotgun and another time for a ham.
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AFTER the glorious sunshine earlier this week, the weather has taken a turn for the Easter weekend. So while enjoying a chocolate egg or two, why not curl up with a book set in East Lancashire? Here are five novels to get you started.
1. Her Father’s Sins, by Josephine Cox Josephine Cox This is the first novel published by bestselling Blackburn author Josephine Cox, who sadly died in July last year. Published in 1988, it follows a girl called Queenie as she grows up in post-war Blackburn, and Queenie’s life mirrors Cox’s in other ways too – both having alcoholic fathers and impoverished beginnings.