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12 Grateful to be in America

October 14, 2011

In later years Harold’s sons would remember stories of how the Germans had effectively blockaded Britain and tried to starve the country into submission.  On the brink of national starvation almost anything that moved became edible.  You didn’t want to know what was hanging in the butcher’s window.  Every day you just prayed to God […]

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11 This Must be Heaven

October 14, 2011

The hotel clerk had been alerted to their arrival and explained that their accommodations and meals had all been provided for by Mr. Dunwell.  The nightmare of their travels seemed to melt into a fairy tale dream of good fortune.  After checking in the porter led them upstairs to their room.  The big oak door […]

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10 A Call to Action

October 14, 2011

Samuel began a series of phone calls.  His voice was strong, determined.  He was in full-fledged business mode.  Charles watched with a grin as his father assumed command.  The first call went to the Lake Neccudah passenger terminal.  “Two tickets to Burlington.  Yes, today.  Well, make room!”  “Dammit.  This is SAMUEL DUNWELL!” he bellowed.  “ […]

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9 “Who is This, Again”

October 14, 2011

The phone rang in the small house at 306 Mountain View Road.  The phone hardly ever rang at the modest home of 93 year old Samuel Dunwell, never mind on a Sunday morning.  Easing himself up with his cane Samuel struggled to answer the call.  He was still bright and alert, but time had caught […]

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8 Beware of Charlatans

October 14, 2011

Exhausted, near-broke, and weary from weeks of accumulated land and sea travel, their money and luck finally ran out at the Kansas/Colorado boarder.  Waiting for a train change at the tiny whistle stop railroad station in Burlington, Colorado the Binghams became victims of an unscrupulous huckster.  Preying on Westward-bound immigrants a shadowy local resident had […]

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7 Family Connections

October 14, 2011

Like many new immigrants of that era the Binghams relied on family connections in the U.S. to sponsor them for citizenship.  In this case Ida Dunwell Bingham, Harold’s wife, discovered a cousin in Rockford, Illinois, named Robert Keye and a half-brother to her father, a half-uncle, if you will, named Edward Dunwell.  Edward lived in […]

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Your Rental Benefits

October 11, 2011

Be among the First New Residents here at Lake Neccudah.  You will have an actual “address”  in our town.  Share it with your friends, invite them to “move in” too.  email a picture of your new “rental” apartment or home to your Facebook Friends. Rentals start as low as $7.50 per month (with a 3 […]

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2007 Nissan Murano

October 4, 2011

2007 Nissan Murano, 31,613 miles, Dk Blue  Front bucket seats, 10-way pwr driver seat w/pwr lumbar support & fore/aft adjustable headrest.  Bill’s Autos 970-555-Auto (2886)

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6 Babies, Bombs, and Blackouts

October 14, 2010

In 1934 , at twenty-two, Harold Bingham and Ida Dunwell, then age 18, were married in a small chapel in Totley Rise, on the outskirts of Sheffield. In attendance were her grandmother Elizabeth and her father, Samuel Dunwell, Jr.  Suffering from a rare form of senility, Ida’s mother was unable to attend. (Today she would […]

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5 The War Years

October 9, 2010

With the dawn of 1942, Lake Neccudah businesses found themselves besieged by the Federal Government to produce equipment for the War effort.  Many small and medium sized manufacturers had to switch their production capacity to produce everything from parts for B-17 bombers to canteens for the infantry.  As young men were called to duty many […]

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