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After 378 years, N.H. family farm goes up for sale
August 2, 2010 8:53 AM
In 1632, John Tuttle arrived from England to a settlement near the Maine-New Hampshire border, using a small land grant from King Charles I to start a farm. Eleven generations and 378 years later, his field-weary descendants - arthritic from picking fruits and vegetables and battered by competition from... more » -
98-year-old Kansas woman earns master's degree
May 11, 2010 12:13 PM
A Kansas woman who at age 95 became the world's oldest person to graduate college is about to top that accomplishment. Now 98, Nola Ochs will receive a master's degree from Fort Hays State University in Kansas on Saturday. Ochs, of Jetmore, set a short-lived record in 2007... more » -
One of oldest military-style schools in US to close
April 24, 2010 11:50 AM
One of the nation's oldest military-style boarding schools, whose students have included Donald Trump and Francis Ford Coppola, plans to close because of financial problems. The New York Military Academy was founded in 1889. School superintendent Robert Watts says it will shut after the academic year ends this spring. The... more » -
Woman believed oldest in America dies
March 8, 2010 5:06 PM
A New Hampshire woman certified as the oldest person living in the United States has died. Mary Josephine Ray died Sunday at a Westmoreland nursing home at 114 years and 294 days old. Katherine Ray said Monday that her grandmother remained spry until about two weeks before her... more »
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