Hometown Booster: The W.R. Benson Story — Part 1
On Nov. 23, 1941—just two weeks before the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor—it was bitterly cold in Seward. According to Mary J. Barry’s definitive history of Seward, it was the coldest day of that calendar year: minus-18 degrees, with a 30-mile-per-hour north wind.
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