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MARY BRASWELL: News from Junes in the past

HISTORY: Albany’s Friendship Oak lost its life this week in 1997.

ALBANY BIRTHS: May 23 – 30, 2016, 2016

Story time at Tallulah Massey Library branch

Whales, fish, sharks fill pages of preschoolers’ storybooks

MARY BRASWELL: Looking back at Memorial Day

HISTORY:The first Decoration Day (now Memorial Day) ceremony held at Arlington National Cemetery was in 1868.

ALBANY BIRTHS: May 16 – 24, 2016.

MARY BRASWELL: Looking Back at what was making the news in May 1931

HISTORY: The Georgia Highway Board approved $1.8 million is paving, bridge construction and grading projects.

ALBANY BIRTHS: May 5-16, 2016

MARY BRASWELL: Looking back at inventions and inventors

HISTORY: May is National Inventors Month

ALBANY BIRTHS: April 30 – May 9, 2016

MARY BRASWELL: Looking back at successful and/or famous people raised by someone other than their birth mothers.

HISTORY: Mothers and children don’t always share DNA.