Pearl S. Buck is seated with former West Virginia Governor and Director of the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation Cecil Underwood at a birthday dinner in the Marlinton Methodist Church on July 7, 1971. Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born at the Stulting House in Hillsboro on June 26, 1892. Her parents were Absalom and Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker. The Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winning author will be remembered at the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace in Hillsboro during the Little Levels Heritage Fair on June 26, 2021. (Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Collection, ID: PSB000063)
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