title: Yankee Journal
author:  Harold Putnam 
description: "A pithy autobiography." -- <i>The Rotarian, December 1998</i>
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  _The Reader: Book One of Sea of Ink and Gold_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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