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25-Jun-1825-Feb-26Braniff Flight 250, Deadly Turbulence, Falls City, Grief, History, Loss, Meaningful Labor, Memories, Mound City, Nebraska, News Media, Pioneers, Professionalism, Quotable, Reciprocal Affection, Rulo, Touchy Feely, United States, Up in the Air

A Final “Hangin’ Out the Warsh”

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«This is Bill’s final column» out of countless ones he wrote over 71 years for the Falls City Journal. With this column, he said farewell; the Journal has been sold and moved to a much smaller space in downtown Falls City which it had occupied until 1950. It’s all extremely symbolic of the state of...

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25-Jun-1825-Feb-26Braniff Flight 250, Deadly Turbulence, Falls City, Grief, History, Loss, Mound City, Nebraska, Pioneers, Professionalism, Reciprocal Affection, Rulo, Society, United States, Up in the Air

More Grief

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This is kind of like how I feel about my (possibly four) upcoming surgeries: I don’t want to do this, but I have to, and I hate it. Received a kind e-mail yesterday telling me of the death of Bill Schock of Falls City, NE, on Thursday evening, six weeks short of his 100th birthday....

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06-Aug-1625-Feb-26Mound City, Nashville

Reminder of Home

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Mound City, MO. First person I see, the hotel desk clerk, used to live in … Nashville, TN. Maybe I'm homesick. Posted by Steve Pollock on Friday, August 5, 2016