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this is my final exam on Hamlet from my senior year in high school. this document features the long essay questions from our brilliant teacher, john mcsweeney, and my essay in response to those questions. i wasn't very good at essay exams, but i got better because of mcsweeney. note: page 8 is out of order. it repeats as the last page, where it belongs.

Wrote this "revised autobiography" of Hitler in the 8th grade. I think it's the earliest sample of my writing I still have, at least electronically.

Just as he was about to be sent home. "Take down the service flag, mother, and get out the jug, father, for your boy is coming home."

this is a letter home from a 21-year-old soldier serving in France as World War II ended. he was preparing to come home in just a few short months. he mentions "robert," who is robert mudge, a noted resident of westerly, ri.

probably from the westerly sun, in westerly, ri.

this is the 1916 obituary of a resident of westerly, ri.

Kempf's Art Photography 627 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, NY. Negatives Preserved. Duplicates can be had at any time. Instantaneous process used exclusively.

this is the pedigree certificate for a cocker spaniel my uncle purchased for $45 after returning from the war in 1946. it shows the dog's ancestors going back several generations.

Ed. N. Burdick. Developing, Printing, and Enlarging. Established 1890. The Kodak Dealer, Westerly, RI. Compare our work with that Finished Elsewhere.

This is from the November 5, 1954 edition of "The Barker," the student newspaper of Westerly High School in Rhode Island. Mudge, born in 1912, was a prominent -- or perhaps even legendary -- figure in Westerly. He died the other day. I came across this brief item entirely by coincidence while looking for something else. Here is coverage of his death from the Westerly Sun: http://www.thewe...