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Grampa always valued education more than anything else.   But he was not an educated man.  He wasn’t a stupid man, or an ignorant one. Throughout his life, he was always curious and hungry for knowledge. He read all the time, and above all loved history, both of the country and of the family. We couldn’t [...]

You know, there’s nothing like a summer night in New England.  We don’t get too many scorching ones, and at night it’s even more rare to feel the heat.  Tonight I’m just sitting on the deck of the Sapphire, writing the EXL camp book by the light of a citronella torch.  There aren’t many bugs, [...]