Edmund Rathbun fought at the Battle of Ticonderoga in 1758 and at the siege of Quebec in 1759. (French and Indian War) He moved his family first to Berkshire County,…
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John Rathbone
John Rathbone in later years in America was called a “husbandman” (farmer), and it is likely that he worked as a boy as a farm laborer. It is probable that…
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John Rathbun Jr
Extracted from The Rathbun, Rathbone, Rathburn Family Historian, Volume 1, Number 2, April 1981, pages 28 – 29. John Rathbun Jr. born about 1655, probably in Dorchester, Massachusetts, shortly after…
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James Crysanthus Phelan
JAMES C. PHELAN The automobile garage owned by James Crusanthus Phelan, and named after him, is cleverly planned, well built, and managed according to up-to-date methods. Mr. Phelan’s father, who…
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Wide Angle Astrophotography, playing with ISO Settings
With forty years of history taking landscapes using film, I had little interest in night time or wide angle astrophotography. The reason was rather simple. As a person who learned…
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