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  2. Ruth Dallas - Wikipedia

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    During the war she worked at an army office and as a milk tester. Following the war, in 1946, her first published poem, "Morning Mountains" appeared in The Southland Times. She adopted her maternal grandmother's name, Dallas, as a pen name. [1] Her first book of poetry, Country Road and Other Poems, was published in 1953.

  3. Margaret Walker - Wikipedia

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    He said that the power of resilience presented in the poem is a hope Walker holds out not only to black people but to all people, to "all the Adams and Eves." [11] Walker's second published book (and only novel), Jubilee (1966), is the story of a slave family during and after the Civil War, and is based on her great-grandmother's life. [12]

  4. Fanny Crosby - Wikipedia

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    Birthplace of Fanny Crosby. Frances Jane Crosby was born on March 24, 1820, in the village of Brewster, about 50 miles (80 km) north of New York City. [10] [11] She was the only child of John Crosby and his second wife Mercy Crosby, both of whom were relatives of Revolutionary War spy Enoch Crosby.

  5. Hannah Flagg Gould - Wikipedia

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    Hannah Flagg Gould (September 3, 1789 – September 5, 1865) was a 19th-century American poet. Her father had been a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, and after her mother's death, she became his constant companion, which accounts for the patriotism of her earlier verses. [1]

  6. Paula Meehan - Wikipedia

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    Paula Meehan was born in Dublin in 1955, the eldest of six children. She subsequently moved to London with her parents where she attended St. Elizabeth's Primary School in Kingston upon Thames . She then returned to Dublin with her family where she attended a number of primary schools finishing her primary education at the Central Model Girls ...

  7. Andrea Gibson - Wikipedia

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    They placed fourth in the 2004 National Poetry Slam and third in the 2006 and 2007 Individual World Poetry Slam. [42] Gibson was the first person to win the Women of the World Poetry Slam in 2008. [43] Andrea has also been appointed as Colorado’s Poet Laureate by Governor Jared Polis. [44]

  8. Final Photo Captures Grandparents Trapped On Roof Before ...

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    A final photo has emerged of North Carolina grandparents on the roof of their home, surrounded by floodwaters, minutes before they drowned due to Hurricane Helene. Jessica Drye Turner’s family ...

  9. Grandma Gatewood - Wikipedia

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    Emma Rowena Gatewood (née Caldwell; October 25, 1887 – June 4, 1973), [1] better known as Grandma Gatewood, was an American ultra-light hiking pioneer. After a difficult life as a farm wife, mother of eleven children, and survivor of domestic violence, she became famous as the first solo female thru-hiker of the 2,168-mile (3,489 km) Appalachian Trail (A.T.) in 1955 at the age of 67.