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1857: William Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose at 5 and walked to the Salt Pond, returned home and bathed. At 8:30 a.m. barometer 29.55 thermometer 77, wind east northeast
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1857: William Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose at 5 and walked to the Salt Pond, returned home and bathed. At 8:30 a.m. barometer 29.55 thermometer 77, wind east northeast
Command of the sea is taken for granted. This is a grave miscalculation.
Dr. Richard Burr McElvein, who spent the years of his retirement in Quissett, died May 25 at the age of 94.
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