Congratulations to Terri Wilson, President of the Avon Historical Society and Today Magazine for winning the first-place Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) award for the story of Leverett Holden, an African-American soldier from Avon who answered Lincoln’s call to fight in the Civil War.

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