Jacquelyn Adele Cornish

Childhood, Family, Oral History, Rural Life

Over the course of her life Jacquelyn Cornish has learned the full story of how the loss of her grandparents farmhouse to a fire changed the lives of her family and the surrounding community in Freeport Pennsylvania.

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