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Church clerk Linda Karpeichik looked through the Book of Remembrance yesterday.
Church clerk Linda Karpeichik looked through the Book of Remembrance yesterday. (Globe Staff Photo / Bill Greene) Globe Staff Photo / Bill Greene

From the ashes, hope rises

Community aids church as ice saves historic book

By Ralph Ranalli
Globe Staff / January 20, 2005

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Amid charred pews and iced ruins, congregants of First Baptist Church turned yesterday from what the five-alarm blaze destroyed to what it miraculously spared: the church's Book of Remembrance. (Full article: 774 words)

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