Beth Harriman, Gorham: A country boy goes to war
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After my mom died last November, I went through her house, not only bringing boxes to Goodwill but also bringing home boxes of antique photographs; many, many photo albums (I think I have a total now of 63 family photo albums on my bookshelves), and the best treasure: my grandfather’s diaries and letters from World War I. This seems to be the earliest letter, written to his mom while he was taking the train to Devens Military Training Camp in Massachusetts.
Beth Harriman’s maternal grandfather asked his sister May to mail him this photo of him with his horse, Myrtle, when he was at Devens Military Training Camp in Massachusetts during World War I.