Susan Darbro

Holiday Cranberry Salad

Although we never lived near the rest of our family, my mother always made an effort to connect with them durig the holiday season - which was a great thing, since my grandmother was the best cook in the entire universe. (Go ahead; put up your dukes. I stand by my...
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Barbara A. Hotelling

My Memories of the Farm

Yes, Bo, I remember the Farm very well. I remember spending the night with Grandmother and Grandaddy Anthony and then coming home telling my mom about the awful stuff Grandmother had me take before I went to bed. Turns out it was castor oil. I don't remember any sleep overs after...
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Barbara A. Hotelling

From Cousin Bo

Hey Barb ! It's little Dwight Beau (Bo) Hall ! Sydna was telling me about you wanting to share memories we have about the country -  H.C. / Grannie / Bill / etc. You know I lived there from about 7 to 12 years of age and you guy's visited often...
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Barbara A. Hotelling

Daycare

One of my earliest memories of childhood with Barbara was during the summer time when we were out of school. I don't remember how old we were. Mom and Pop both worked and I guess there was a lapse in childcare so we got to go out with Granddaddy "Pop" Dodson...
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Annie Payne

Australian Christmas Memories of a New Bride

Australian Christmas Memories of a New Bride
Christmas Memories Being born in Brisbane, Queensland and having always lived in Australia, I find it difficult to connect to the northern hemisphere’s images of a white and snowy Christmas. The festive season is an entirely different type of celebration in Australia, where temperatures on The Big Day can often push...
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Janet Holt

Close Encounters in Baja

Close Encounters in Baja
Recently, a friend forwarded a story to me about the 2005 rescue of a Humpback whale. The whale was spotted off the northern California coast, hopelessly tangled in crab trap lines that had begun to cut into her flesh. The divers who rescued her talked about how the 50-ton animal made...
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Ellen Fernandez-Sacco

A Nuyorican Thanksgiving

Holidays in our home meant company, and the preparation of a table weighed with food.  Hours of preparation yielded a large mound of pasteles and a huge pot of arroz con gandules , in addition to a turkey and a roast pork shoulder, a stand-in for puerco asado, roast suckling pig....
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Annie Payne

Christmas is coming, time to start baking!

Christmas is coming, time to start baking!
The Jacaranda trees are in full bloom here in Adelaide, South Australia as spring rushes into December and the start of summer. Last weekend, Santa arrived in Adelaide as the last float in the Adelaide Christmas Pageant, a tradition which has run annually for 79 years through the streets of the...
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Patricia White

Christmas 1949

The Christmas I was seven,  I have nothing but happiest of memories about.  That year of all wonderful things we somehow got to be in Virginia on Christmas Eve.  Usually, we had to wait until at least Christmas Day to head out from Tennessee because of my dad's church commitment , but this year was different.  We were...
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Legacy Blog

November Story Prompt- Week 3

Let's Eat!! Holiday traditions always include great food. This week let's share some family recipes. Your special meals will be remembered by your children and grandchildren. Remember to ask your parents and grandparents for their special recipes. As you publish your family delicacies try some of the recipes of other members....
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Janet Holt

Dad and the Newspaper

My father was tougher than nails and rarely sick but that was before lymphoma took over. He fought it bravely for a long time but cancer inevitably wins. We lived 200 miles from M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and made many trips there while he was undergoing treatment. At times...
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Janet Holt

Just a Dog

“Wolf!  Wolf!” I shrieked, slamming into the house as fast as my four year old legs could carry me. Knowing my penchant for fantasy, my older and wiser sister calmly went out to investigate.  From safely behind her, I could see the “wolf” curled up asleep inside my red wagon was...
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Charles William Spratt

Hound Dog on His Families Trail

I received an e-mail from Tom Coumier this morning to see if I was alright. I guess I am alright sort of . Just hung up on my genealogy. That’s all.I tell my wife it’s like an hound dog on a trail . you can’t quit. When I started ,y genealogy...
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Golden V. Adams Jr.

The Ultimate Sacrifice: The last full measure of devotion

The Ultimate Sacrifice: The last full measure of devotion
Milton L. Adams, Pfc; Army Ser. # 39026959; Company C, 323 Infantry, 81st Wildcat Division WWII: Written by Golden V. Adams Jr. on Veteran's Day (50th Anniversary), 11 Nov 1995 at Provo, Utah. Milton LaVar Adams was born 9 May 1910 in East Garland, Box Elder County, Utah to William Albert...
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Annie Payne

Jacaranda Trees.....Christmas is on its way.

Jacaranda Trees.....Christmas is on its way.
The Jacaranda trees are burgeoning with buds and starting to erupt into magnificent panicles of soft blue blossom, heralding the coming of Christmas to Australians all around our huge island home. We don't have the snow, yule logs, red-berried holly and roaring log fires which are associated with a northern hemisphere...
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Susan Darbro

Mandane and the Quack

Mandane and the Quack
Mandane and her siblings Poor health seemed to plague my great-grandmother's family, the Dicks of Greenland Farm, Darby Township, Pickaway County, Ohio. My great-grandmother Mandane and her younger sister Blanche, for example, were married in a double wedding ceremony on October 19, 1892. Less than a year later, Blanche was dead!...
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November Story Prompt- Week 1

Describe one of your favorite holiday traditions or celebrations Holidays help to provide a sense of continuity in our lives and a respite from the hectic uncertainty that life throws in our path. A family's traditions are the glue that binds one generation to the next. Take time now to write...
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October Story Prompt- Week 4

Describe a dream job you would like to have pursued but didn't and why Some of us are fortunate to be working or have worked in the career we are passionate about. Others wish they could but haven't for a number of reasons. Still others look back at decades of employment...
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Annie Payne

Time Passes, Memories Fade - and We Take Our Stories With Us When We Go.........

Time Passes, Memories Fade - and We Take Our Stories With Us When We Go.........
After last Friday's class, week 3 of my 6 week 'Unlock Your Family Stories' workshop at the Campbelltown Library, one of my students came up to me and said "I wish I'd met you a few months ago, before I had to move my 98 year old mother out of our...
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Susan Darbro

Primary Occupations Part II - My Silver Lining

Primary Occupations Part II - My Silver Lining
My recollections of the years I spent being a hospital nurse jumble together in a very mixed bag of memories, some wonderful and others hideous. Being a tenderhearted sort of person, I always found it difficult to divorce my emotions from my work. If my patient was suffering, then so was...
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