Last Person to Receive Civil War-Era Pension Dies – Well, this aspect of the Civil War has finally come to a close 155 years after the fact. Her father started out in the Confederacy, but switched to the Union.

Louise Penny: June Newsletter – Love all Louise Penny books, but check this from the first review of her next one. Paris, librarian, research skills. Could be the best one yet!

“Series devotees will revel in both Penny’s evocation of Paris–every bit as sumptuous as her rendering of Three Pines–and in the increased role she allots to librarian Reine-Marie, whose research skills are crucial to untying the Gordian knot at the mystery’s core.”

2020 History Section

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