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More than 4,000 guests streamed through the gates carrying their heirlooms, curiosities and long-held questions. The hope: to ...

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The first thing you learn about the Manning genealogy is that those boys are some fighting SOBs, all the way back to the American Revolution. Two Manning forebears served under Brig. Gen. Francis ...