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From the Morgue
The Southeast Missourian's resident historian Sharon K. Sanders blogs about interesting pieces of local history pulled from the newspaper's morgue -- the place where our old editions are kept.
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A snowy Easter in 1940
Posted Tuesday, March 31, 2015, at 12:00 AM
This past winter seemed like the winter that wouldn't end to some of us. Still, the residents of Southeast Missouri don't have much to complain about. We could have had a winter like our friends in the Northeast.
Still, it seemed like, just when we were on the brink of spring and that flowers would soon be bursting forth at any second, we were hit by that snow. And then that second snow.
I have a feeling the folks in 1940 felt much the same way, when they woke up on Easter morning to find a blanket of white stuff covering their world.
Here's hoping your Easter is a blessed, sunny one, without any snow!
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