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Hello from the Beautiful Pacific Northwest. News that might interest you.

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It has been a very eventful week, here in the warm, smoky, increasingly uncomfortable Seattle area. The most prominent news has concerned the air quality (horrible from wildfire smoke from BC and Eastern Washington), temperature (highs in the 80s), and traffic congestion from the "normal" road closures for construction and accidents. Every day brings headlines …

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Lesser-Known Signers of the Declaration of Independence: George Clymer of Pennsylvania

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George Clymer was an orphan who made good. Very good. George Clymer, a grandson of an original settler of the Penn colony, became an orphan at the age of one. He went to live with a wealthy uncle in Philadelphia, where he received an informal education and he grew up working in his uncle’s mercantile …

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