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Canton's Erna Richards survived three months in an internment camp.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misspelled the first name of Erna Richards. Patch regrets the error. When you have the privilege to not only meet, but hear the stories of people who have lived history about which you have only read, one column is not enough. Meet Erna Richards, an 83-year-old Canton resident who survived three months in an internment camp during World War II. She and her husband stopped by Joyful Acres Farm in Ball Ground some weeks back to watch the harvesting of chickens, and to get eggs. I was helping with the harvest, so I didn’t shake her hand. Erna remembers raising chickens when she was a child. Born in 1927 to German parents, she spent her early childhood in Wilhelma, what was then a colony in …
Rodney Thrash
6:13 pm on Tuesday, August 9, 2011
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