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I received the following from a young woman in town who writes a history column for a local periodical:

"pick up a copy of the caroline review october 1st, i did a little digging into the story of brownie. i scoured all the denton journal newspapers but haven’t found anything on him yet sadly. but i did turn to census records to learn a little bit more about steve brown(e) and consulted the denton journal on the movement of the post office to try and track down when brownie would have lived and died. unfortunately i didn’t really find out anything more than what was in mr. sonny’s book- but there’s two other interesting grave stories as well! brownie inspired me 🙂"

I certainly will pick up a copy of the Caroline Review (free all over town) -- I usually get mine from the (new) post office, a typically Cold War brutalist concrete structure erected in 1961, with a cornerstone citing the Kennedy administration, which was constructed with an overhang and an architecturally unnecessary steep roof according to then-current fallout shelter design -- and report back here.

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