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Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day at Character Café
Featuring Characters from Voices in the Sanitorium Over a decade ago, I had a tea party with two of my best friends on the grounds of the former West Mountain Sanitarium located on the hillside above Scranton, Pennsylvania. Thus began my fascination with the history of tuberculosis and specifically the staff and patients who had…
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Another Morning at Character Café — Featuring Ben Findlay of A Not so Persistent Suitor
Meet Ben, a junior reporter with the Cincinnati Times-Star in 1884. Well, junior reporter is an exaggeration. Since refusing to date his boss’s daughter, Ben is back to type-setting and writing advertisements. With everything that has happened, he has had to end his courtship with the lovely Cora. Ben sure needs a pick-me-up from Character…