Before the internet and before facebook many people got their news from newspapers. Local news was handled by correspondents like Rita Shampnois. Thanks to Mary Valentine for the clipping from The Oneonta, NY, The Daily Star, Feb 27,1976. Rita's phone has a dial on it! From the days when we dialed numbers.
Ian MacMillan (died December 18, 2008) was a Hawaii-based scholar and novelist. From 1966 to 2008 he was a professor of English at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.[1] The author of eight novels and six short story collections, MacMillan founded the literary journal Hawaii Review in 1973.[2] Beginning in 1992, he also served as the fiction editor for Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing.[3] His work was anthologized in The Best American Short Stories[4] and The Best of Triquarterly.[3]
Rennie M Elliott: Potters Field pp. 59 -60, plat 7. Index page is shown above leading readers to pages 59-60 for Potters Field Burial records.
Candy Turner I am surprised to see Clarence Pickens and Adrian Pickens names on the ledger. Isn't Potter's field for people who could not afford burial?