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Comments on: Hearsay from Yesterday: you’re always “in”famous in a small town https://genealogistonajourney.net/2016/09/26/hearsay-from-yesterday-youre-always-infamous-in-a-small-town/ Follow Me On a Journey to Discover My Ancestors Tue, 09 Mar 2021 04:45:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Rebecca Walbecq https://genealogistonajourney.net/2016/09/26/hearsay-from-yesterday-youre-always-infamous-in-a-small-town/#comment-1327 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 04:45:56 +0000 http://box5666.temp.domains/~geneals9/hearsay-from-yesterday-youre-always-infamous-in-a-small-town/#comment-1327 In reply to Kathleen Melville-Hall.

I would love to hear more! Thank you for reading the post and for the background information. I love hearing the stories behind the stories. 🙂

]]> By: Kathleen Melville-Hall https://genealogistonajourney.net/2016/09/26/hearsay-from-yesterday-youre-always-infamous-in-a-small-town/#comment-1326 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:33:20 +0000 http://box5666.temp.domains/~geneals9/hearsay-from-yesterday-youre-always-infamous-in-a-small-town/#comment-1326 Hi Rebecca, A clue to why Alpena had so many houses of ill repute (& I can show you at least 2 buildings, but. they are respectable homes today) Back in the 1800’s Alpena was not a “family town”. Yes there were families, but if you look at an old city directory, or pictures of the town, you will see MANY hotels. Some “hotels” might have only a few rooms to rent, others had more. Lumberjacks came to Alpena to work all winter in the woods because it was much easier to fell the trees & haul them out of the woods in the winter with frozen ground. The bears were snoozing for their long winter naps & flies & mosquitoes were also not an issue. Because most of the men who came to work in the woods left their families behind, or had no families, when a male came to town, he desired ‘companionship’. Not all did, but enough so that there was a good market for the world’s oldest profession

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