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Throwback Thursday: Letters of Persifor Frazer
While Stationed at Fort Ticonderoga, Persifor Frazer wrote to his wife Polly, and mentioned the Kennedys of Yellow Springs Page 1 of letter from Persifor…
Throwback Thursday: Letter to Johnathan Potts from John B. Cutting
Examining Our Archives Uncovers a Scan of John B. Cutting's Original Letter to Jonathan Potts What Is This? This is a photographic scan of a…
Throwback Thursday: The Old Jersey Prison Ship
Inside the Old Jersey: The Brutal Prison Ship That Held Three Young Men from Yellow Springs Last week, in our Throwback Thursday post, we examined…
Throwback Thursday: Letter for Prisoner Exchange from Sarah Kennedy
Examining Our Archives has Uncovered Letters from Sarah Kennedy, wife of Samuel Kennedy, at Yellow Springs even after his death What Is This? This is…
Throwback Thursday: A Pledge of Allegiance
Our Archives Preserves Dr. Bodo Otto and Dr. Kennedy Signing an Official Pledge to the New United States of America What Is This? Found in…
Throwback Thursday: Descendants of Two Revolutionary Nurses from Yellow Springs
An Old Book From Our Library Tells Us About The Intertwined Families of Abigail Hartman-Rice and Christina Hench Inside cover of the Annual Hench and…
Throwback Thursday: Revolutionary Food
Our Research Using a Book From the Moore Archives Library to Imagine What History Here Would've Tasted Like Interior page of The American Heritage Cookbook…
Throwback Thursday: Making History- Winter at Washington Hall
Our Research to Imagine Key Figures from Yellow Springs' Past and Represent them to a New Audience Art Imitates Life In preparation for our upcoming…
Throwback Thursday: (Pottery) Fragments of the Past
We Identify and Date Several Pieces of Mysterious Pottery Found on the HYS Property Fragment of pottery found at Historic Yellow Springs (undated) Setting the…
Throwback Thursday: Medical Tools of the Revolution
As We Explore the Medicine of the 18th Century, The Uses of these Tools Intrigued Us Collection of medical tools from Historic Yellow Springs, replicas…
Throwback Thursday: Slipping into Slip-Trailed Redware
Could The Fragments of an Old Bowl be Connected to Life at Washington Hall? Shelves, Boxes, and Shards of the Past As we have mentioned…
Throwback Thursday: Valley Forge, The Doctors Otto, and Washington Hall
In Collaboration with the Valley Forge Park Alliance, We Analyze the Deep Winter of 1777–1778 and the Role of Dr. Bodo Otto, His Sons, and…