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The US State Department issued a statement stating this person was wrong when charged that there were 205 Communist party members "working and shaping the policy in the State department”
Who is Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R., Wis.
This educational insitution is where JHG and ESG learned things like sign language and blacksmithing and were poll workers.
What is Salem Community College
The Mill End fabric store was located in this city
Wilmington Delaware
This 4th grade teacher taught our birthday person, and 8 years later her younger sister
Who is Mrs. Jordan
This person donated homemade “vanilla fudge with nuts” to the fundraising Penns Grove Library Card Party every year even though it was actually peanut butter fudge.
Who is Dad
This popular comic strip was first published in 7 newspapers when our Birthday Person was 2 ½ months old
What is Peanuts
2 of the 5 public schools in Penns Grove NJ were named after Generals from 2 different wars
What are Lafayette and Pershing schools
Matching dirndls were made for our Birthday Person and her sister out of this type of fabric
What is seersucker (possibly seersucker and polyester blend if you count the aprons)
This artist painted a well-known and accurate portrait of the family pediatrician
Who is Andrew Wyeth
This person over age 90 could (and did) recite most of Longfellow’s The Village Blacksmith
Who is Mom
Formed when our Birthday person was 4 1/2 months old, this organization in the U.S. started with a founding partnership of 38 Christian Faith groups?
What is the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA (aka National Council of Churches, or NCC).
The Union Presbyterian Church Sunday School Picnic was usually held at this location
Centerton (unincorporated township, the water slide was divine)
These 3 fabric types should generally not be shrunk before sewing
What is wool, velvet, and silk (or anything else B names- she'll be right)
This minister supervised the education addition to Union Presbyterian Church in 1950
Who is Dr. Joseph MacCarroll
This first name was used by Birthday Person's maternal grandfather Somers at Westchester Normal School, later Westchester State
Who is Mike
According to the United Press International, in September 1950 these troops liberated Seoul from Communist Rule
What are the United Nations troops
Now a private property, the Helms Cove Tavern built in 1732 in Penns Grove N.J. was known for what event in 1776?
What was hit by a cannonball (underneath the south window fired from the British ship Roebuck)
The device or surface used to tailor press curves in garments is called this
What is a pressing ham
These 2 musicians conducted the marching band at Penns Grove High school when our Birthday Person was there
Mr. Blackburn and Mr. Milkovitz
Our Birthday Person's dad grew up on this street in Carney’s Point
Hayes St.
This man called for freedom, equality and peace for the peoples of the world during his Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in 1950.
Who is Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, former United Nations mediator in Palestine. (46 yo Black man, awarded for his work in mediation in Palestine.)
This body of water was called “The Canal” in Cedar Crest, but is actually named __.
What is the Salem River
This is the make and year of ESG's sewing machine
What is a 1946 Kenmore sewing machine
In the 2012 presidential election, this candidate received 81% of the vote in Penns Grove NJ.
Who is Barack Obama
This was the total cost for all hardware used during construction of the house S. Sutton and Aunt Sister lived in on Commercial St. in Clifton Forge
What is $5- $7