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Aaron Houston for The New York Times The 1787 letter from George Washington, beneath his image in a scrapbook begun in 1826. Aaron Houston for The New York TimesBill Schroh, director of operations at the Liberty Hall Museum, looking at the Washington letter. UNION, N.J., April 26 — The letter from George Washington is pasted between poetry and party invitations, stuffed into a dusty scrapbook amid jokes and cutouts of handsome men, and all the highlights of a lucky little girl’s life. It was written in May 1787 and addressed to Jacob Morris, grandfather of Julia Kean, the precocious...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2006 -- An America Supports You corporate team member is coordinating creation of what it calls the world’s largest scrapbook as a way for the nation’s students to show their support for America’s servicemembers. Students in Marion Fegley's fifth-grade classroom at White Oaks Elementary School in Burke, Va., work on scrapbook pages Dec. 4. The pages will be included in the "World's Largest, Now Greatest, Scrapbook." Connect and Join, an organization that works to keep families connected via electronic communication, is compiling the book, which will officially be presented to the military during the Armed Forces...

Here is today's installment of The Redneck Scrapbook

In today's installation of the Redneck Scrapbook we bring you a family portrait... Previous scrapbooks can be found here

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Secrets of the Secret Service, and more. 07/15/2002, Volume 007, Issue 42 SECRETS OF THE SECRET SERVICE Capitol Hill lawmakers considering the president's plan for a cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security will want to look awfully hard at one particular flow-chart revision it contemplates--the new outfit's absorption of the Secret Service--in light of an eye-opening report in the June 17 issue of U.S. News and World Report. The story has so far inspired a handful of not-very-funny late-night television jokes. But for some reason it has otherwise largely escaped notice. Which is worse than a pity, because if reporter Chitra...