English Abbey Faces Tear Down Over Pocahontas Tomb
Gravesend's St. George's Church, where Pocahontas is said to be buried, faces demolition after 1948 condemnation. Vicar Richard Daunton-Fear insists the bones remain, and a 1617 burial entry hints at the Pocahontas tale amid doubts about the legend. Restoration could cost about $280,000.
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Gravesend
Eng
St. George's Church
Richard Daunton-Fear
St. George's
Pocahontas
Mr. Daunton-Fear
Rebecca Wrothwyffe
Thomas Wroth
Borne
John Rolfe
John Smith
Virginia
London
Capt. Smith
Chickahominy River
Smith
Rings on Trees Measure Rainfall Centuries Ago
Washington study links tree growth rings to past rainfall using the tree ring calendar. Smithsonian support aids Dr Waldo Glock in comparing annual tree growth with rainfall in northern New Mexico to improve historical climate interpretations.
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Washington
Smithsonian Institution
Waldo S. Glock
New Mexico
Women Run Skipton as Town Becomes A Woman's Town
In Skipton England with a population of 12800 women have taken over many prewar jobs. Bus conductors ferry fares, a woman porter handles luggage at the rail yard, Miss Dorothy Harrison Regis ters births and deaths, Dr Mary Hunter attends patients at the hospital, and a policewoman mayor holds the key city role. Husbands predict the town may be run by wives.
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London
Eng
Skipton
Dorothy Harrison
Mary Hunter
How Filighty Old Should You Say She Was
The exchange hints at aging and politeness in a humorous vignette. A speaker asks for her age, another suggests “somewhere in the middle fifties” as a tactful reply. The quip preserves a playful tone of social banter.
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Carolyn Joan Purcell
Atlanta
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