Thursday, February 9, 2023-From the Archives of Focus on History from the Daily Gazette-Reid Hill’s favorite teacher 

Florence Collins 

   Born in 1911, her parents were Anthony and Pelagia Lulkowska Dabrowski.  They had come to America from Torun, Poland, birthplace of Copernicus.  Her given first name was long and Polish and, according to her son’s eulogy, she decided to call herself “Florence” because of a neighbor woman who had that name.

Friday, February 10, 2023

Episode 461-Alan Maddaus is author of Wright Peak Elegy: A Story of Cold War, Nuclear Deterrence and Ultimate Sacrifice. The book tells the story of a U.S. B 47e jet bomber that crashed into Wright Peak in New York’s Adirondack Mountains in in January 1962.

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