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Say hi to your great grand fathers ghost.

I found out recently that my great grand father wrote for a local newspaper in the years after the first world war and up to his death around the time of the Great Depression.

Largely he wrote political and philisophical essays, which is even more interesting to me since it is almost a dialog with a long passed away family member that was gone half a centruy before I was born. I say it is almost a dialog because the only thing missing from this are my questions to him that might guide our discussion, however he wrote so much that many of the things I might think to ask to learn his temperment and ideology have been answered already. 

I first discovered this rabbit hole a year ago when I found out that he had wrote articles for the paper.  On the first day that I attempted to dig in to the hole I learned that this was going to be a deep hole.  At first I only knew of two articles; my second cousin had a paper clipping of one, and one of them is avalible through Google (google "Winters" "Side Pocket Essays" and you will find that one.)

One of the two was published in syndication in a trade union journal which contanted a date of publication which I have used as a starting point to find them all, I have only gone through 8 months of papers and found over 70 now.  I hope to pull them all together in to a book that will protect this rare find of family history.

It is tough to figure out some things about my great grandpa, especially considering the fact that everything was written for a 1920's audience.

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