Category: Lost and Restored History
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Anchors Aweigh – the Naval Career of John Baldwin
In this story, the 2nd of two parts, we will set sail on the naval career odyssey of John “Johnny” Baldwin. We will use official US Navy documents to recall his tours of duty. Along the way, we will get to know this man, who joined the US Navy at the tender age of 16.
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Dearest Dorothy – the Love Letters of Johnny Baldwin
Between June 1939 and May 1940, with World War II looming, Naval Signalman, John “Johnny” Baldwin carried on a long distance letter writing courtship with Dorothy Lee Dixon. In all, 35 letters were sent to Dorothy. Before they married in May 1940, they had only met twice.
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Favorite Family Recipes
About 1988, Cinda Baldwin gathered all her favourite recipes and used an early word processor program on an IBM 286/386 home computer to create a recipe booklet. She printed the booklet and made multiple spiral bound copies at a Kinko’s Printing Center. These recipe booklets were distributed as Christmas gifts to friends and family.
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Zacharias Sickels VanWeenen – the Patriarch
Rarely, in American genealogical research, does one find a single person from whom sprang the sum total of all descendants of a family. Zacharias Sickels Sr is solely responsible for all people in the United States who have a Sickels surnamed ancestor. Here’s his story.
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Richard Charles Chladek – a forgotten and restored life
Multi-talented musician, composer, author, editor, landscape architect, choir-master; Richard Chladek was a restless polymath with wide ranging skills and a knack for self promotion. Until now, his life had mostly been forgotten.
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Buel C Robinson – an exceptional life
The Robinson and Johnson families knew that Lt. Buel Robinson had been shot down and taken prisoner in July, 1944. But, the details of that event, before and after, have been shrouded in mystery. Let’s rewind the years and open this forgotten page of history and see exactly what happened.
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Alonzo Hunt – a wrongful death investigation gone wrong
Alonzo Hunt was struck and killed by an automobile in May, 1925, in Marion, OH. His death sparked a wrongful death investigation that quickly and quietly ended. Did someone get away with murder?
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IndyEthnicFood 1999-2016 – a chronological history
In Indianapolis, IN, before Yelp and Google and other restaurant and entertainment review systems, there was IndyEthnicFood. Co-developed by the author, in its day, IndyEthnicFood was the “go to” source for ethnic restaurant, market, and festival information.
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Solomon Maness-Baldwin – a discovered history restored
Who were the biological parents of Solomon Baldwin, the author’s paternal 2nd grandfather? For over 200 years, no one knew. It took the author four decades of patience and perseverance plus advancing technology to determine the answer.
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