BRYAN EATON/Staff photo. Bethany Dorau of Historic New England travelled to France to visit the grave of Newburyport native Eben Bradbury, Jr. who was killed in World War 1 where she placed a medal from Towle manufacturing and earth from his Bromfield Street home. Volunteers transfer the elder Bradbury's letters to his son into a data base, from left, Sandy Manley, Susan Chase, Natalie Bartfay, Patty Bartfay, Kelly Gray and Tim Fountain.

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