Bucket of Ashes: Pioneering Journalist’s Remains Take the Long Way Home from Queens Crematorium

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Local News · New York · October 16, 2026

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In the 1800s, a journalist using the pen name Lisle Lester left her childhood home in Wisconsin and set off to create a life of adventure and travel typically unheard of for a woman at that time.  She launched the first magazine in Wisconsin, The Badger State Monthly, and later hired and organized the first…

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