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	<title>The Spokesrider &#187; Calhoun County MI</title>
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		<title>More Mayo places</title>
		<link>http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/05/31/more-mayo-places/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 05:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s ride will not be listed in the annals of Great Memorial Day Rides.    It was a hot day, with temperatures expected to get to 90F, but the previous two days had rain and thunderstorms.   About 3.5 miles from home I realized I didn&#8217;t have my smartphone with me, so rode home to get it.  <a href='http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/05/31/more-mayo-places/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mayo places</title>
		<link>http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/05/23/mayo-places/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 05:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On an afternoon ride to Convis Township in my home county of Calhoun, my first destination was the farmstead of James and Sarah Mayo.    Unfortunately, it looked like the barn has fallen into ruin, and the house a little further back looks destined to follow it. The day&#8217;s route was in part a clockwise loop.   <a href='http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/05/23/mayo-places/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Newton Grange</title>
		<link>http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/04/24/newton-grange-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 03:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After putting up the last post about the town square in Coldwater, I looked to see what else I had from that ride on October 22, 2005.    I saw that I had never gotten around to learning about this building from my first photo stop of the day,  at the intersection of D Drive and <a href='http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/04/24/newton-grange-3/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mysteries of the 1832 cholera epidemic</title>
		<link>http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/04/11/mysteries-of-the-1832-cholera-epidemic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Crane Cemetery (3 October 2010)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin (which we visited week before last) is now a museum and a reminder of British oppression of Irish people.  The leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising were executed here, though not in this courtyard. Executions by firing squad took place in this yard. This place isn&#8217;t exactly a part of <a href='http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/04/11/mysteries-of-the-1832-cholera-epidemic/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>New and improved</title>
		<link>http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/02/02/new-and-improved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While sitting at my desk and listening to the blizzard howl late last night, I went to wunderground.com as I had done several times throughout the day and was confronted with the most dreaded words on the world wide web:   &#8220;new and improved.&#8221; I was aghast that the Wunderground.com people would choose to ruin their <a href='http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/02/02/new-and-improved/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for Mercy Nichols Hicks</title>
		<link>http://www.spokesrider.com/2010/08/18/looking-for-mercy-nichols-hicks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 05:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Hicks Cemetery is about a quarter-mile up the road from the place where I surmised that Solomon and Mercy Nichols Hicks had lived. The brown obelisk across the road, on the right, may be where Mercy&#8217;s father-in-law and mother-in-law are buried. But I should back up and explain a little better why Dave and <a href='http://www.spokesrider.com/2010/08/18/looking-for-mercy-nichols-hicks/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Solomon and Mercy Hicks</title>
		<link>http://www.spokesrider.com/2010/08/11/solomon-and-mercy-hicks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mercy Hicks, the wife of Solomon S. Hicks, was the youngest of six surviving children in the Warren Nichols family. The parents and three children succumbed to cholera and were buried somewhere in Athens. I've had no luck finding that grave site, but I also got interested in the surviving children, some of whose graves I've found.]]></description>
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		<title>James H. Brown&#8217;s monument</title>
		<link>http://www.spokesrider.com/2010/04/04/james-h-browns-monument/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spokesrider.com/2010/04/04/james-h-browns-monument/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s issue of the Battle Creek Enquirer has a very nice article by Ryan Holland: &#8220;Uninished Tribute to the Open Road.&#8221; It&#8217;s about the strange-looking monument that is peeking above the &#8220;Welcome to Battle Creek&#8221; sign where I-194 ends in Battle Creek. (I took the photos in this article on my way out of town <a href='http://www.spokesrider.com/2010/04/04/james-h-browns-monument/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Stone Builders and Fire Keepers</title>
		<link>http://www.spokesrider.com/2009/08/25/stone-builders-and-fire-keepers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spokesrider.com/2009/08/25/stone-builders-and-fire-keepers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I had a story from F Drive North in Emmett Township from last Sunday&#8217;s bike ride, even if the photos weren&#8217;t particularly interesting. It was vaguely related to the story of the 1832 cholera epidemic that I was following. But now I see that even the photos I have don&#8217;t fit the story. <a href='http://www.spokesrider.com/2009/08/25/stone-builders-and-fire-keepers/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Isaac N. Hurd</title>
		<link>http://www.spokesrider.com/2009/08/23/isaac-n-hurd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was cloudy and not such a good day for picture-taking, but cool enough for a pleasant 30-mile bike ride. The theme of today&#8217;s bike ride was the 1832 cholera epidemic that came with the Black Hawk war. The final stop was at Oakridge Cemetery in Marshall, MI. I had hoped to find a handful <a href='http://www.spokesrider.com/2009/08/23/isaac-n-hurd/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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