White Spring Ranch

Historical Site,1873-1904 Farmhouse,1878 Log cabin, 1880 Curio, and 140 years of onsite collections found here. Trying to create a Library and we need your help

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Our Little House Day was successful. Thank you all!

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In the process of restoring a 1930's Flint & Walling windmill. Any student interest is welcome.

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@AgateShadow @Spokane4P @KREM2 And the penalty is death.

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Student project to think about .......someday we would like to have a small wooden shed to display the blacksmith tools that used to be in an old blacksmith shop on site, with recycled materials found on site.

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Click on the photo to see the whole picture.

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1961

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https://t.co/QTZb8ftOJw

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Check out our Online project of typing letters. We have hundreds of early script letters to type. Send an email to diana_conroy for letters to type. Sign up on GivePulse.

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6. Enter Passcode: 1885
Join from Conference Room System with SIP
[email protected]

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Let me know if this Zoom link works....
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android: https://t.co/KOwOBiaYLp

Meeting ID: 936 0254 1588
Passcode: 1885

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I will post the Zoom link here. Earn 1 hr. Volunteer time.

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Join from WSU Conference Room System (Polycom)
1. Using the touch panel, or remote control, select 'Place a Call',
2. Enter the IP Address including periods: 162.255.37.11
3. Press the pound key twice '##'
4. Enter the Meeting ID: 936 0254 1588
5. Press 'Call

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I will post the Zoom link here. Earn 1 hr. Volunteer time.

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Online Zoom presentation. Earn 1 hour volunteering, just by joining Zoom, Nov. 20, 6 pm. Description of White Spring Ranch and why we need volunteers to transcribe extensive collection of 4,000 early letters into typed versions. Zoom meeting set up and hosted by WSU students.

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Zoom meeting set up and hosted by WSU students Aalia Ganie and Rachel Ndombi. Diane Conroy will contribute. Send your email to [email protected] and we will send you a Zoom link. You are welcome!

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Online Zoom presentation. Earn 1 hour volunteering, just by joining Zoom, Nov. 20, 6 pm. Description of White Spring Ranch and why we need volunteers to transcribe extensive collection of 4,000 early letters into typed versions. Zoom meeting set up and hosted by WSU students.

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....I am so grateful to have had this opportunity with White Spring Ranch. I have always believed that the best leaders are those who don't hesitate to serve, and I am so glad I have gotten to do just that this last month by preserving precious history. Holiday Beyer, WSU"

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"Here are those last three letters! Thank you so much for this opportunity--I have enjoyed it more than I can say. It is very powerful to see history through the pen of those who made it, and I just hope I will be able to record my own history so aptly.

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how my husband and I correspond with each other. It's amazing to see what's remained static, even though this correspondence was over 100 years ago, versus what has changed.

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VERONICA BLANCATO
0 .50
Hours, WSU
September 20, 2020
My Reflection

I was so touched to read and receive this letter to transcribe. Little did I know, the author of this letter, a solider that had just enlisted in WWI, signs off his letter from a town called Garden City, NY

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from her again. Towards the end of his letter, he talks to her as if they're having regular household conversation (asking her about getting her watch back, or at least getting her money back, and telling her not to worry about him). The conversation seemed casual and similar to

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and I imagined their writings back and forth to each other. Transcribing this shows how much has changed, but yet how much is similar. Henry spoke of the vaccination he received that hurt so bad, and spoke of how much he missed his fiancee, unsure of when he would receive mail