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November 27, 2024 – Baca County – Based on responses to our recent survey, notes, and letters to us about the newspaper’s future and concerns over maintaining local news, it’s clear there is a strong willingness to support the Plainsman Herald. While Kent readily admits to Hunter and Lexi that he’s not sure continuing is…
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NOTE: As many have asked about our survey. Here is the survey and the introductory text. We pushed this to our Facebook page and published it in our Oct 9 & 16, 2024 issues. Our return rate was approximately 15% of our pre-notice of closing subscriber numbers. More than 2,600 U.S. newspapers have disappeared since…
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As I move many of my dad’s Navy letters to a digital format I will occasionally provide samples as shown below. I picked this one simply because it was from the set of letters from 1942 which I thought was lost. Also most of the language from the letter is original. I changed a couple items…
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Some might say Orville Ewing was born 100 years too late. However, I have discovered while learning about his adventures he wasn’t alone. In various written accounts I have encountered references to muleteers traveling the countryside during Orville’s 30 plus years of traveling the highways and byways. What is a muleteer you ask? a muleteer…
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I am beginning the process of what I hope will be transcribing all of my Dad’s letters home from the Navy during WWII. Since I don’t really know what I am doing I thought I would just start. I don’t have a scanner with me so I will be adjusting some things I as…
