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    • News and Features
    • Music Writing
    • Essays
    • Bite-Sized Blog
    • San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries (2023)
    • A Riff of One's Own (2021)
    • Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa (2018)
    • The Columbine Effect (2013)
    • Sacred Sonoma (2007)
    • Beloved (2007)
    • Read the Music (2006)
    • Dream Brother (1999)
    • Poetry (2005-present)
  • San Francisco's Magdalen Asylum
  • Dead Reckoning podcast
  • Press
  • Shop
  • Sensitive Enough
  • Editing Services
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Augusta (Gussie) Eckstrom /April 21, 2023 by Beth Winegarner

Today in 1891, Augusta "Gussie" Eckstrom was back in the paper after Joseph McGinn took out a license to marry her. Even though the young couple had Ma Eckstrom's blessing, the authorities refused to let her out of the Mag. https://t.co/wu4LLlikBa pic.twitter.com/hYFUUIj3Md

— Beth Winegarner (@bethwinegarner) April 21, 2023
← Julia Ryan Alice Curtin →
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