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December 5, 2010

Loraine Anderson: New history blog

By LORAINE ANDERSON Associate editor

Last week, the Record-Eagle launched a history blog in the new History section created recently on our website. I invite you to take a look at it at www.record-eagle.com/history.

I call it History Crossroads because I hope it will become a gathering place and forum for people who enjoy local history.

I will monitor the blog and write small pieces weekly, but it is my hope that readers will help by commenting on local history stories, providing additional information to a published story, or even asking questions about some aspect of local history that other readers can help answer.

This week's blog includes all of the above about the World War I package published Nov. 21-22 in the Record-Eagle. Here is how it works.

Go to www.record-eagle.com/history and the first paragraph of the History Crossroads blog will come up. Click on the headline to read more. If you want to comment, use the comments form at the bottom of the blog to join the conversation.

Here's a taste of this week's entry for those of you who don't have a computer or are unfamiliar with commenting online.

HISTORY CROSSROADS

To get things started, here are comments from readers about the World War I package:

Tony Rakowski, my mother's first cousin, was killed by a German sniper in early November (as we know the Armistice was signed Nov 11, 1918). He was the grandson of German emigrants Michael and Mary (Englander) Limberger of Potter Road. As the family story recounted many times — a few more days and he would have made it!! He is buried in the Old Catholic section of Oakwood.

George McManus Jr.

Traverse City

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Nice article in Sunday's paper about WWI. Am glad you included information about Thomas H. Coxe. To the best of my knowledge, only the socialists in town raised any objection to that war. And that objection was quite muted — understandably. The illustrations were impressive. Love the sepia one on Page One that shows the train at the station.

Richard Fidler

Traverse City

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Jim Neve, Leelanau Township supervisor, said the Nov. 21 front-page photograph of the crowd at Traverse City's old Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad station reminded him of a story he heard years ago about the Cedar railroad depot during World War I. According to that story, soldiers departing from Cedar wrote their names on the wall of the depot.

Does anyone know more about this? If so, please fill us in.

Associate Editor Loraine Anderson can be reached at landerson@record-eagle.com or 933-1468.

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