Robert Manry Pictured with His Wife at His Homecoming Parade
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- Created Date
- 1965
- Description
Robert Manry, a Willowick resident who sailed his 13-foot sloop, Tinkerbelle, across the Atlantic Ocean in the summer of 1965. Manry lived with his wife, daughter, and son on Royalview Drive and worked as a copy editor at the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Manry left Falmouth, Massachusetts on June 1st and arrived at Falmouth, England on August 17, 1965. The event received world attention and Manry returned to Willowick to a parade attended by a crowd of 10,000. He was presented a key to the city and was honored at a dinner at the Willo Restaurant at which over 400 people attended.
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- Ohio Digital Network
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- Cleveland Public Library
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- Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library
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- image
- Format
- Photographs
- Language
- English
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- Robert Manry Pictured with His Wife at His Homecoming Parade. 1965. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://cplorg.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16014coll23/id/50. (Accessed December 1, 2022.)
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- (1965) Robert Manry Pictured with His Wife at His Homecoming Parade. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://cplorg.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16014coll23/id/50
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- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://cplorg.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16014coll23/id/50>.