‘A true historian’: Woodstock native Lowell Edward Walkup documented war in his letters home

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‘A true historian’: Woodstock native Lowell Edward Walkup documented war in his letters home

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Lowell Edward Walkup, a U.S. Coast Guard quartermaster first class in World War II, grew up in rural Woodstock, the son of a dairy farmer. He earned a teaching degree, […]

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