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One Man's Sussex Obsession Turned into a History Lesson
After a lifetime of collecting in Sussex, one man is helping the whole community learn about their roots.
It all started out like any other hobby. At the tender age of 14, Fred Keller had moved with his family to Sussex. Almost immediately, he had a fascination with the history of the area and decided to start collecting Sussex and Libson artifacts. Later, he added Lannon to his interests. “I started collecting as a very young boy,” said Keller. “I had a really big bent for world history and I had a certain amount of mentors that fostered this. My father bought the Sussex Feed Mill and on Saturdays he’d have me come out to work there. I’d meet these farmers and I started asking questions and started to collect, both mentally and physically, pictures, artifacts, Civil War guns that local people had, things like that.” More than 50 years …
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