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In 2013 an elderly gentleman named Robert Goddard showed at my school unannounced. He had read a newspaper story about the work my students had done to tell the story of George Arsenault of Rumford, ME who was killed in the World War II and is buried in the Rhone American Cemetery in Draguignan, France. It happened to be the same day that a local news story was broadcast on TV about our work. Litt

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The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution

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