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Browsing Local History Articles tagged "education"
My Early Childhood Memories: Part Three, by
Sarah Hinton Gourley
Amelia Hinds took me to my first school [1857]. The school was in a small white house. It was a [Read more]
MyEarly Childhood Memories: Part Four, by
Sarah Hinton Gourley
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Editor’s note: The writer is on the staff at the Aptos Library. [Now retired]
Many Aptos residents believe that “Helen’s” (Wikkerink) library, which began in 1944, was the first library in the area. It wasn’t. It was the first continuous one – her efforts made the Aptos library what ..." [More]
Excerpted from The First Aptos Library, and How It Grew… by Margaret Souza
