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Jun 16Liked by John Poltrack

Is the Preston elm in the photo located at the foot of what used to be the Preston homestead property, opposite what used to be the white (Baptist, then Apostolic Lutheran) church? I remember a tree there in the 50s and 60s. It was enormous and beautiful and graceful; we as children played under it when visiting. We also had an elm in our back yard on Temple Road. These were magnificent trees and we took them for granted.

And James Roger hauling potatoes out of the field in June. Would potatoes have grown that fast, being planted in spring, or perhaps having been wintered over in the ground?

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If you look beyond the elm there's a hint of water in the background which to me would indicate that it's the Preston house on Old Country Rd in Bank Village, also the slight slope of the road fits that spot whereas the Baptist church was on a level road.

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Jun 16Liked by John Poltrack

Current approaches for data analysis of whole human genome sequencing data can take weeks to complete, resulting in bioinformatics overheads that exceed sequencing costs. Churchill's nephew went on to become a biologist and devised a computational approach that allowed fully automating the analytical process required to take raw DNA sequencing data through the complex and computationally intensive processes and revolutionized gene sequencing.

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Find a Grave. George was a mail contractor and auto livery. Sadly his son George Jr. only lived to be 17 or 18.

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