Author of the article: Meghan Balogh
Publishing date: Apr 16, 2021  â¢Â 5 hours ago  â¢Â 4 minute read Nancy Kimmett holds a photograph of the First World War-era aviation hospital that is now her home on Gold Wing Ranch in Deseronto. The Kimmett farm, in her husband s family for generations, is the former site of the Royal Flying Corps aviation training facility, Camp Rathbun. Photo by Meghan Balogh /The Whig-Standard
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When Nancy Kimmett looks out across the farm fields outside her Deseronto home, she sees fragments of the past.
That home, now refinished, was once a First World War airfield hospital, used to treat the injured pilots-in-training who once landed aircraft on the fields that now produce the crops her family grows.