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Gertrude Blair

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Title

Gertrude Blair

Subject

Blair, Gertrude
Pugh's Run (Va.)
Teachers-Virginia-Shenandoah County
Women-Virginia-Pugh's Run

Publisher

Shenandoah County Library

Date

1975

Rights

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC)

Biographical Text

At the age of eighty, Gertrude Blair purchased a historic log house near Pugh’s Run and remodeled it to serve as her home.

A retired teacher and “home economist,” she graduated from Miami University in Ohio and worked as a writer, advertising executive, and author of numerous cookbooks before retiring to Shenandoah County.

Bibliography

"Country Kitchen," Shenandoah Valley Herald Collection, 1975, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.

Citationzork

“Gertrude Blair,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed December 5, 2025, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/12385.

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