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🌱 Why a 1701 Swansea landmark just made a national endangered list

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  • Why a 1701 Swansea landmark just made a national endangered list

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Today's riddle: I went into the woods and found it. Once I'd found it, I searched for it. The harder I searched, the less I wanted it. When at last I couldn't find it, I carried it home in my hand. What is it? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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  • Tuesday: Warmer with high clouds, with a high of 82 and low of 58 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Warm with increasing clouds, temps: high: 85, low: 57.
  • Thursday: Breezy and not as warm, with a high of 75 and low of 47 degrees.

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• Swansea Friends Meeting House among America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places - Boston News, Weather, Sports (whdh.com) — Swansea’s historic Friends Meeting House has just been named one of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places, bringing a $25,000 preservation grant to help save the 1701 Quaker building. Closed for years and in need of major repairs, the site could eventually reopen as a community center celebrating local contributions to religious liberty, abolition, and women’s rights.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A splinter. (Thank you Jake M. for sending it in!)
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