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Happy Father’s Day to all you Dads out there – I’m off to my second celebration of the day.
Best Regards,
Ralph
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Very interesting article
lee
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A spectacular piece of history, very well presented, of 2 members of a well documented historical family. A real pleasure to read and to see. Thank you for the effort and scholarship.
Dan C.
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How could Isreal Kimball be appointed by President Lincoln in 1870? The President was assassinated April 15, 1865!
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Good point. I have corrected that.
Regards ... Tim
(Message edited by auldstampguy on June 20, 2011)
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01:27:14pm
Very nicely done Tim!!!
Bob
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great article, Tim. I especially like the illegal usage of Scott 25.
Chamberlain, incidentally, would rise to the rank of Major General and command a division. He was wounded several times, occasionally seriously (a letter to him while in a Washington hosptial was in a recent large eBay lot, unnoted; i suspect others saw it too thereby pushing it well beyong my reach). He was also elected Governor of Maine.
It might also be noted that Bowdoin was originally founded in Massachusetts, and legislation in 1850 split the state into two parts, the other being Maine.
David
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06:22:24pm
When I was young I read something about someone in Boston taking a trip to some small harbor along the Maine coast in the days when Maine was still joined at the hip to the Masachusetts Bay Colony.
It said he was going "Down East".
I looked at my USA map and at my globe that my parents had gotten me for my 10th birthday and struggled to understand how a person could be going "down east" when from everything I could see he was proceeding "up" north.
Here I wish I could insert a clip of a puzzled eleven or twelve year old turning the globe topsy turvy and inverting a map trying to undertand how people could have been so confused in colonial days.
Then one day a few years later I was reading one of the many books I had gotten about ships, especially sailing ships and I saw some reference to sailing "down wind" to a Maine coastal villiage.
Wow !!!!
A three or four year puzzle solved. Like finding an inverted watermark previously undiscovered in a nickel-dime mixture.
Just thinking about it after all these years makes me smile.
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Hi Folks – I wanted to call everyone’s attention to a great new article from our very own webmaster Tim Auld. The article tells a fascinating story of a 19th century family and two covers that tie together a father and son. Check it out at: Israel and George G Kimball - Two graduates from Bowdoin College Thanks Tim!
Happy Father’s Day to all you Dads out there – I’m off to my second celebration of the day.
Best Regards,
Ralph
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re: Israel and George G Kimball
Very interesting article
lee
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re: Israel and George G Kimball
A spectacular piece of history, very well presented, of 2 members of a well documented historical family. A real pleasure to read and to see. Thank you for the effort and scholarship.
Dan C.
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02:11:45am
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How could Isreal Kimball be appointed by President Lincoln in 1870? The President was assassinated April 15, 1865!
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re: Israel and George G Kimball
Good point. I have corrected that.
Regards ... Tim
(Message edited by auldstampguy on June 20, 2011)
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20 Jun 2011
01:27:14pm
re: Israel and George G Kimball
Very nicely done Tim!!!
Bob
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re: Israel and George G Kimball
great article, Tim. I especially like the illegal usage of Scott 25.
Chamberlain, incidentally, would rise to the rank of Major General and command a division. He was wounded several times, occasionally seriously (a letter to him while in a Washington hosptial was in a recent large eBay lot, unnoted; i suspect others saw it too thereby pushing it well beyong my reach). He was also elected Governor of Maine.
It might also be noted that Bowdoin was originally founded in Massachusetts, and legislation in 1850 split the state into two parts, the other being Maine.
David
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22 Jun 2011
06:22:24pm
re: Israel and George G Kimball
When I was young I read something about someone in Boston taking a trip to some small harbor along the Maine coast in the days when Maine was still joined at the hip to the Masachusetts Bay Colony.
It said he was going "Down East".
I looked at my USA map and at my globe that my parents had gotten me for my 10th birthday and struggled to understand how a person could be going "down east" when from everything I could see he was proceeding "up" north.
Here I wish I could insert a clip of a puzzled eleven or twelve year old turning the globe topsy turvy and inverting a map trying to undertand how people could have been so confused in colonial days.
Then one day a few years later I was reading one of the many books I had gotten about ships, especially sailing ships and I saw some reference to sailing "down wind" to a Maine coastal villiage.
Wow !!!!
A three or four year puzzle solved. Like finding an inverted watermark previously undiscovered in a nickel-dime mixture.
Just thinking about it after all these years makes me smile.
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