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Nov 2013 News

Get your 2014 Historic Garden Home Calendar, a great gift for family and friends. This third edition of vintage photos and memoirs is about key events that changed life in Garden Home, such as the school, the trains, the horses, … Continue reading

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Fall 2013 News

Get your 2014 Historic Garden Home Calendar, a great gift for family and friends. This third edition of vintage photos and memoirs is about key events that changed life in Garden Home, such as the school, the trains, the horses, … Continue reading

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Aug 16, 2013 Email

Hello Garden Home Friends – (4 photos) Just to update you on our Garden Home history. Virginia and I enjoyed meeting with Jan and Shirley Gertsch Bartels from Alabama. The GH Recreation Center has a new paint job inside and … Continue reading

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Summer 2013 News

Improving the website: Take a look! Mike Dardis, Joe Dardis band, former Girl Scout Camp PTA minutes from 1930s, meetings opened with song Developing 2014 vintage Garden Home calendar: Historic events History of Westgard Ave., now 87th. An elephant walking? … Continue reading

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Memorabilia

Thanks to Polly Herman for her contribution of a Garden Home labeled sweatshirt. Should we sell something like this? Also thanks to Don Dunbar for a Garden Home classroom pennant and a lovely candle stick made from wood from the “original … Continue reading

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Spring 2013 News

Historic Garden Home Neighborhoods Calendar: 2013 This keepsake calendar is filled with vintage Garden Home photos and memoirs. You’ll also find out how a number of streets got their names. Find the neighborhoods you played in. This keepsake calendar, our … Continue reading

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Jan 18, 2013 Email

2013 Historic Calendar: The 2013 Historic Garden Home Neighborhoods calendar sold well. It is a real keepsake and is filled with vintage photos and memoirs. We also find out why many of the streets in G.H. were named. The calendars … Continue reading

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Winter 2012 News

New Stories New Stories: We’re working on the stories that were shared at the transcribers’ table at the Centennial event, polishing, getting more information, etc. Many should be posted by December, 2012. More recent stories on website include: Remembering: Clark … Continue reading

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Winter 2011 News

New stories on our website Sturtevant Family, Remembering: additions with map and advertising blotters and a jersey cow. Sharon Wilcox, Researching: Garden Home Area Schools, Aaron Frank Farm. Garden Home Businesses Check out the new listing of Garden Home businesses. … Continue reading

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