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J. Peery Miller Memoirs — Part 31

With this section J. Peery Miller’s family comes to Yellow Springs. Because it it noted that he is younger than college age at the time of the move, it is startling to realize just how young he was during his … Continue reading

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J. Peery Miller Memoirs — Part 27

Miller writes home from his Civil War posting. A copy of a letter written to my sister Charity from camp Kelley, Paw Paw Station, W. Va., July 10, 1864. Paw Paw Statoin, Va.,July 109, 1864. My Dear sister Charity: This … Continue reading

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J. Peery Miller Memoirs — Part 20

J. Peery Miller follows up wheat harvesting with spring sowing and highlights a small technological revolution and the attitudes of eagerness and caution resulting from it, much as the transition from slide rules to calculators, land lines to cell phones … Continue reading

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J. Peery Miller Memoirs – part 16

An industrious farmer always found plenty of work to do at all seasons of the year, and his children were trained to be helpers in accordance with age and ability. But my youth was not overburdened with tasks. I found … Continue reading

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