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Using First-Hand Accounts

By Patricia Meredith | October 2, 2019

I’m giving my presentation on the marvelous collection of letters titled Dear Mother this Saturday up at the Loon Lake Library. (If you’re in the area—be sure to stop by at 2:00!) So I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how much I prefer first-hand accounts when it comes to research. When I first discovered …

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Dear Mother

By Patricia Meredith | November 24, 2018

I wanted to take a moment to write about one of my top sources for first-person accounts of Spokane in 1901. Dear Mother is “A collection of letters and photographs describing many conditions in and around Spokane in 1901-1902” by Marinus (“Marien”) Crommelin. Although originally written in Dutch, Patrick Serné, Marien’s grandson, has taken …

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Using First-Hand Accounts

By Patricia Meredith | October 2, 2019

Dear Mother

By Patricia Meredith | November 24, 2018

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