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How to Preserve Your Family History—10 Minutes at a Time

With the holidays fast approaching, did you know you have a prime opportunity to preserve your family history, 10 minutes at a time? Darcy Dougherty Maulsby, author of Images of America: Calhoun County, gives us 5 tips on keeping our family history alive.

10 Amazing Harvest Festivals from Around the World

Now that fall’s finally here, we’re finally able to get excited about celebrating all that comes with it. We’re saying goodbye to the long dog days of summer and hello to cooler temperatures, crisp breezes, and beautiful fall foliage. We’re more than ready to celebrate the fantastic bounty that comes along with every new fall as well

5 Top Thanksgiving Events in America

America has been celebrating Thanksgiving for a really long time – almost 400 years, to be exact. However, we’ve hardly been celebrating it the exact same way over all that time. The Pilgrims of Plymouth celebrated by putting aside differences with the indigenous people of the regions and partaking in the bounty of their first successful harvest together.