21. Nevzat Gonultas, manager of a telephone substation on the lakeshore, is considered a local historian because his father spent many hours telling him stories from the past. 22. Mount Elizabeth might have been named after his grandmothers, according to documents written by local historian Sandra Thurlow. 23. Not all the local historians are from the Menard area. 24. No shipwreck has claimed more lives in New England waters than that of the Portland, according to local naval historians. 25. Not at all, say local racing historians. 26. Rennels is a local historian and runs a unique cable TV station in the far West Texas town. 27. Several sources have him killed during a training exercise in Fort Worth, but local historian Bill Fairley got a little more specific in a history column. 28. She started a letter-writing campaign and gathered signatures from local historians, preservationists and organizations. 29. Some, like Ruth Basner, a local historian, proclaimed their trust at public meetings. 30. Talk to local historian Bill Johnson, who has a drawl as long as a lariat, and you hear some of this. |