Childhood pen pals meet after long distance letters
Patricia Ingram of Llanfarmiet, South Wales, aged 26, travels to Reading, Pennsylvania to meet her 97 year old pen pal Linda Bickster. The pair began writing as kids after an American Girl article and have maintained contact for 12 years.
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Tiny town recreated in painstaking early 1900s detail
Ralston Elliott and his wife Eleanor built miniature replicas of Sangamon County's downtown blocks from the early 1900s. Using scrap paneling and old photos, they detailed window panes bricks and rooftops, finishing each building in about a week for a potential permanent display.
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Illiopolis
Ralston Elliott
Sangamon County
Eliott
Eleanor
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