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🌱 How a Churchtown-born orphan became a pivotal Cherokee Nation educator

Churchtown, Pennsylvania Patch AM: a 3 min read

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  • How a Churchtown-born orphan became a pivotal Cherokee Nation educator

Today's riddle: Why did the cookie go to the Doctor ? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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  • Thursday: Showers and a heavier t-storm, with a high of 89 and low of 71 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Friday: Showers and a heavier t-storm, temps: high: 85, low: 70.
  • Saturday: A t-storm around in the p.m., with a high of 85 and low of 69 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Stpne Gardens: Princeton-trained missionary interred in one of Cherokee County's most historic cemeteries (todayinfortsmith.com) — A 19th-century missionary whose life began in tiny Churchtown, Lancaster County, went on to shape schools and churches across several Native nations in Indian Territory. This detailed biography follows Alexander Hamilton Balentine from his difficult Pennsylvania childhood through Princeton training and decades of teaching, preaching, and family life before his burial in a historic Cherokee cemetery.
   

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  • Pottstown Awarded $632,000 To Improve Intersections, Traffic Lights (patch.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Because he felt CRUMMY ! (Thank you Michelle S. for sending it in!)
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