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Day: March 8, 2019

Flashback Friday: Young at Heart

Published March 8, 2019
By Emily Riippa Schwiebert
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On February 3, 1948, Mamie Nelson celebrated her 123rd birthday. For the occasion, she donned a black dress that matched the fashions of an older era and made the journey from her residence at the Houghton County Infirmary down to a photographer’s studio. There, no doubt with great care, she settled into a chair before . . .

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