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As many of you know, opera diva Lilian Nordica was of the village's most notable residents.
And while some of you knew that Nordica was her stage name, many of us did not know what her real name was. One of the locals stumbled upon this 1887 article courtesy of the Library of Congress. Click on the images below...and her real name was...
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