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The 100^th anniversary of Big Blowup will be observed August 20-21, 2010 in ceremonies in northern Idaho and Montana and this event serves as an inspiration to compile a Brunelle family story of the 1910 fire that swept through Wallace. The story revolves around Alvan Brunelle and Marguerite Francis Haney, both of whom lived through the 1910 fire, later meeting and then married in 1915. Because of them we are here…

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Yesterday I bought some really good cooking apples that were grown locally. This part of Virginia and especially the nearby Shenandoah Valley were historically important suppliers of apples to the rest of the country. The Albemarle Pippin is as local as you can get here in Albemarle County. I do not remember the name of the apples, but they were not pretty in the grocery store sense of the word. Most of the local apples are smallish and multicolored, with tones ranging from yellow to green to… Continue