Columns/Editorials
December 13, 2024

The Way It Was – The painters

By Bill Boyd 

Editor’s note: This is another column in Bill Boyd’s new series, “The Way It Was,” about growing up in Marysville. Bill continues to work with the Union County Historical Society to obtain information for his stories.

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It was sometime in 1948, and I was sitting in a booth at 109 Sout...

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