A Depression Kid Goes to School

I entered First Grade in September of 1937.  I skipped Kindergarten.   Not because I was precocious.  Such an educational luxury wasn’t offered by Drumright’s schools.   The Board of Education apparently didn’t favor naming schools in honor of presidents or heroes.  They just named them according to where they were located in...
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My Earliest Memory of How NOT to Act

My Earliest Memory of How NOT to Act
              We lived on Rockland Street in Natick, Massachusetts.  I was the youngest of the first half of a large brood of Cormiers.  Because there were four other children ahead of me, I learned to avoid being disciplined by paying attention to what was meted out to my older siblings.  But, one particular day,I was in...
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Protecting No Matter the Cost

What if I told you that tomorrow morning, between four and five o'clock, you must run to your next door neighbor's house and kill everyone inside? Would you do it?  Keep in mind that, earlier, you would have taken an oath to protect, and you have no choice but to obey the...
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Nursing, My First Career

Nursing, My First Career
Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 I commenced my nursing training a few months before I turned 17, when I left home and moved into the Nurses Home at the Repatriation General Hospital at Daw Park, a suburb of Adelaide. There were 12 of us in our Preliminary...
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I was a Tom Boy When I was a Little Girl

I was a Tom Boy.  I liked to catch mice in the woodpile and show them to the neighbor, climb trees and fight with the boys in my neighborhood.

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Childhood Jobs and Chores

“A kid will run any errand for you if you ask it at bedtime.” Red Skelton, US comedian.

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Childhood Chores Taught Me Plenty

Trying to get 10 kids to do chores was like herding cats...

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Bits & Pieces continued 2 - Growing Up on a Turkey Farm

Bits & Pieces continued 2 - Growing Up on a Turkey Farm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Turkeys and noise - When turkeys hear a noise almost the whole herd will all gobble at once.  (Click on the audio above to hear the turkeys).   Growing up on a Turkey Farm in Moroni, Utah Normal 0 false false false...
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Childhood Chores

What childhood chores or jobs do you recall? ·       Were the chores circulated around each week, as my Auntie Joan did with her 8 children? My three older sisters and I shared doing the dishes. If one were not there the other three would still have to share them, sometimes that...
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Jamie's Passion is Dance

My daughter Jamie has had a passion for dance that outlasted all her friends who started with her. Now, as she has just graduated High School she is starting to see her future and the road she needs to follow in pursuit of her dream. This video is of a number...
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Grandpa Spells' Military Details

Grandpa Spells' Military Details
The AIF Project Home | Search | About | Disclaimer   John Birmingham SPELLS Regimental number 508 Religion Roman Catholic Occupation Agent Address Burra Street, Port Wakefield, South Australia Marital status Single Age at embarkation 21 Next of kin Mother, Mrs. Capt. Spells, Burra Street, Port Watkefield, South Australia Enlistment date...
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Do You Remember the Seventies?

Do You Remember the Seventies?
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Jimmy and Me- Part1

Jimmy and Me- Part1
I was fortunate to have a unique relationship with all 9 of my siblings. In the coming stories I hope to share memories with all. Jimmy was the oldest and I was next. So, I spent more time with Jimmy than any of the others. I looked up to him as...
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Bits & pieces of my life as I remember growing up

Bits & pieces of my life as I remember growing up
    Karen Blackham       My Mom with me - 1 month old       I was born in a small town (pop 1,000) in Moroni, Utah, on (Thursday) February 10, 1949 with my twin sister Ruth.    We were the 4 th and 5 th children in...
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Music in my life!

Music in my life!
  Starting from the beginning – remembering my music experiences through the years   . When I was just 2 or 3 my mother sang songs to me. I remember learning the songs, “I Have Two Little Hands” and “Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam”. There were many others, but these...
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How Great Grandparents, Joe Land and Kate Perdue got married

Joe Land had two wives: sisters Florence and Katherine (Kate) Perdue. The story of how he married his second wife was told to his great grandaughter, Jeri Steele by her grandmother, Ella Land Renfro.

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Legacy

Before I started making my family tree I never really thought about leaving a legacy.

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One Magical Month in Mexico- Week Two

One Magical Month in Mexico- Week Two
Below is the blog created by Ken during our month in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. Monday, July 19, 2010 Monday? Back to School! Our Italian dinner out Sunday night provided more confirmation of just how tightly knit the expat community in Mérida really is. We got to talking to a couple of...
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One Magical Month in Merida- Week One

One Magical Month in Merida-  Week One
Below is the blog created by Ken during our month in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. Tuesday, July 13, 2010 Off we go! Well it all starts here. Packing up four people plus a video production business is nightmarish to say the least, but we're almost ready to go! Looking forward to lots...
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Maybe Grandpa Sullivan had a reason to be cantankerous

I never really knew my grandfather, John Thomas Sullivan. He died in 1967 when I was two years old, but I was afraid of him anyway. Fearing a dead man may be irrational, but John Sullivan's reputation as a mean, opinionated man transcended life or death. It wasn't until five years...
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