Tribune Column ; Time of the Essence for Blind Boone Home
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As a person grows older, he or she becomes much more aware of history, its significance and the fact that the future is based on the past; that history forgotten might be recovered, but history lost is gone forever. Nothing is as final as extinction or destruction.
For years, I've driven past 10 N. Fourth St. and wondered about the fate of the Victorian structure known as the Blind Boone Home. I remember it mostly as a funeral home.See the full content of this document
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Tribune Column ; Time of the Essence for Blind Boone Home
I know that a group of concerned citizens had been working to save the home, to save a historical landmark, and had formed an organization in 1997 called the John William Boone Heritage Foundation and that the old home was on the roll of...
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