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The old man’s hand trembled as he put pen to paper. Palsy had afflicted him before he reached middle age, and he was used to working around it, but nervousness always worsened it. He managed to scratch out “Quincy January 1st 1812” and then paused to gain control of the shivering pen for the next line: “DEAR SIR.” He paused again. Perhaps a little joke would help break the ice. “As you are a Friend of American Manufactures under proper restrictions,” he began,...

Towns honoring Declaration signers dot map in region, state Tom Emery, For the Journal-Courier July 3, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 Several places across the state are named for the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Eurobanks | Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less 2of6 Benjamin Rush was a physician, politician, social reformer, educator and humanitarian, as well as the founder of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Smith Collection | Gado/Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less 3of6 4o...

Jul 2, 2021 July 4th, 1776 is of course the day America marks its birth and celebrates the bonds of freedom and fellowship that bind us as a nation. But on the 50th anniversary of that monumental day--as the lives of Americas founders drew to a close--the ties of freedom and fellowship overcame the politics that tore them apart and united them one last time. This is the Forgotten History of July 4th, 1826. July 4th, 1826. As his beloved nation celebrates 50 years of independence, a 90 year-old ...

Jul 2, 2021 July 4th, 1776 is of course the day America marks its birth and celebrates the bonds of freedom and fellowship that bind us as a nation. But on the 50th anniversary of that monumental day--as the lives of Americas founders drew to a close--the ties of freedom and fellowship overcame the politics that tore them apart and united them one last time. This is the Forgotten History of July 4th, 1826. July 4th, 1826. As his beloved nation celebrates 50 years of independence, a 90 year-old ...

“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to doctors and [...]

Joan Wells and her husband, Dane, owned the Queen Victoria Bed & Breakfast in Cape May until they retired in 2004 and moved to Philadelphia.But Joan Wells found she missed the gardening and began looking for a way to offer her skills. For the last seven years, she’s been part of a small group of dedicated volunteers who plant, weed, and help maintain several small historic parks, sometimes ...

Volunteers bring the bloom back to Independence Historical Park’s ‘secret gardens’ Frank Kummer, The Philadelphia Inquirer © TYGER WILLIAMS / Staff Photograp Volunteer Ruth DeCou, of Washington Square, works on dead-heading the roses at the Rose Garden at Independence Park. Joan Wells and her husband, Dane, owned the Queen Victoria Bed & Breakfast in Cape May until they retired in 2004 and moved to Philadelphia. But Joan Wells found she missed the gardening and began lo...

Joan Wells and her husband, Dane, owned the Queen Victoria Bed & Breakfast in Cape May until they retired in 2004 and moved to Philadelphia.But Joan Wells found she missed the gardening and began looking for a way to offer her skills. For the past seven years, she’s been part of a small group of dedicated volunteers who plant, weed, and help maintain several small, historic parks, sometimes ...

SUMMARY The Virginia Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes and Others, Unlawfully Held in Bondage, and Other Humane Purposes was a Richmond-based antislavery organization active from 1790 to 1804. Founded by Robert Pleasants, a wealthy Quaker slaveholder-turned-abolitionist from Henrico County, the society at its high-water mark claimed more than 100 members, many of whom were Quakers and more than a few of whom were Methodists. The Virginia Society peti...

Nearly 20 years have passed since the United States went to war in the Middle East, but for the parents of children who never came home time is frozen still.