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This month's blurbs include the biography of a trend-setting band and the story behind a 250-year-old trend-setting sentence. The Name of this Band is R.E.M by Peter Ames Carlin The college rock band REM-- Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe-- formed in Athens Georgia in 1980. Their music helped to define an... Continue Reading →
Carpenter James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill in 1848, the same year the United States defeated Mexico in the American-Mexican War and gained the California Territory. John Sutter hired over one hundred men to build his gristmill and the eight-mile race, or ditch, carrying water to the mill. He put Marshall in charge of... Continue Reading →
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