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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Mar 24, 1977

Page

8

Abby Says Only Pet Lover Digs Elaborate Dog Funeral

Readers share views on extravagant pet funerals with a dog burial in a satin casket and a hired minister. Other letters discuss a teen writer's fantasy, gender play, and a wife defending looking good for her husband. A note profiles Dianna Baxter and her mother selling Easter candy and baskets from a shop on Albany's main street.

Abby Jimmy Dianna Baxter Albany Tri-County Joint Vocational School David Ohio University John Brian

Look At Early Athens County From Old Beckler Letters

A visitor uncovers a Carbondale family cache from the 1860s in Nelsonville as Peter Beckler’s papers reveal Civil War draft anxieties, a mine and store, health concerns, and plans of kin across Indiana Missouri and Kentucky in a window into Ohio life a century and more ago. Rachel Beckler preserved the letters. the trunk owners share them with thanks to Fred Abraham.

Sally Walters Abraham Nelsonville Carbondale Fred Abraham Julie Peter J. Beckler Peter Rachel Indiana Missouri Kentucky Ohio Beckler Peter Beckler Camp Marietta Athens County Rachel Beckler

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