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Deerwood Adirondack Music Center provided a summer music camp located on Saranac Lake in New York.

In 1944, Alice Sloman was one of the one hundred students from all across America invited to attend. She remembered this camp fondly for its voice…

This is a political advertisement ran in the Southern Illinoisian paper on March 14, 1976. The literature pertains to the 1976 Illinois Governor Election. It was a privately funded ad paid by Southern Illinois Voters and Tony Ison of Mt. Vernon. The…

Souvenir from Stockholm Sweden. Acquired by Kristi Barnwell on her first international trip to Sweden. She took this trip to visit a friend who was studying abroad at the time. She said that from this trip she remembers how amazing the coffee shops…

John Transue was in Czechoslovakia to teach English. He went to teach adults, but instead taught kindergarten. The children were taught to write with fountain pens that could draw the ink up and release it. The kindergartners would use the pens to…

While John Transue was teaching English in Czechoslovakia, he used this Czech money as daily tender. Transue would go to Zakopane, Poland on the weekends for a short getaway, and saved the Polish bills as souvenirs.

The contributor collects stickers and magnets from her travels to state parks. This is one of those patches from the Cumberland Gap National Park.

The contributor collects stickers and magnets from their travels and this is a sticker from the Cumberland Gap National Historic Park.

Certificate known as the Order of the Ditch was presented to Cleaotha (Cleo) L. Bailey upon crossing the Panama Canal on the USS Yorktown on June 19, 1993.

Yellow crayon box, originally containing 120 crayons. The box is decorated with a wizard, princess, dragon, and castle.
"a very special box, it's always been there"

The signs were purchased as souvenirs in Quepos, Costa Rica. The Transue family traveled to Quepos in 2021 for family vacation. Alex Transue thought the signs were funny.