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Annette talks about her memories of primary school days in Marryatville - an eastern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, during the 1950's.
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Annette remembers walking to and from school in Kensington, South Australia during the 1950's & early 1960's.
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Family meals in the 1930's and 1940's were a lot different than today. Alice talks about her memories of family meals way back then.
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Alice recalls lessons at primary school and talks about her favourite teachers. The phto shows Alice's siblings who also attended the same school.
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Alice recalls travelling to and from school when she lived in Laura, South Australia. Alice attended the Laura Primary from around 1937 onwards.
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On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek T for Turkey Footloose Forester had a special interest in Turkey because he knew several people who were posted there as Peace Corps Volunteers. The Turkey volunteers had lived and trained with the Pakistan Foresters...
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When I was a little girl, my mother brought me a Golden Book, and it was called Dixie, Trixie, Nixie, and Pixie [perhaps not in that order]. The book was about four little cocker spaniels, and those were their names. I fell in love with the book and wanted a cocker...
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It was a very hot afternoon in the summer of about 1961 as I was involved in moving sprinkler pipe on the "dry farm". Elsewhere on the farm, workers were hauling baled hay. My grandfather, W.A. Adams was busy harrowing in the same field where I was moving sprinklers. He was...
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There are a number of stories and legends behind Missouri's sobriquet "Show-Me" state. The slogan is not official, but is common throughout the state and is used on Missouri license plates. The most widely known legend attributes the phrase to Missouri's U.S. Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver, who served in the United...
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My Fathers STORY (George Russell Enlow, son of Benson Campbell Enlow & Idesta Danley) With the little bit that I can remember I will try to recall some of my life before I was married. Born June 9, 1915 in Donora, Pa., which is south of Pittsburgh on the Monongahela River. ...
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Joyce recalls what she did after school when she lived in Peterborough,South Australia as a child in the 1940's
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This is a picture of my grandparents on my mother's side of the family. It was Abram Huffman and Electa Peyton Huffman.
That's my mother to the right of them.
When this picture was taken, it was close to their house. And I can see the big grape arbor that they had. They had a wash house and coal house built as one building. It was like two rooms. One was the wash room and the other was the coal house.
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I've smelled cows, and I'm tired of smelling cows. That's the reason I got away from them. They are very stinky beasts. And when you are around livestock, you smell like livestock. It's just -- I don't know, there are a lot of nice things. In the spring when the flowers...
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Throughout my life I have come across a lot of smells. One of the smells I enjoyed a lot was Estae Lauder used to make a perfume. I think they called it Estae. I thought that was the best smelling stuff I ever came across. I found out what it was...
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I think this was around the time I was in the sixth or seventh grade or something. Anyhow, while we were sitting there in the classroom, the nun had me get up. I used to be an altar boy, and we had to speak our prayers in Latin. She was...
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Jill recalls family meals while growing up in Clare, South Australia.
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