School Lessons and Teachers

School Lessons and Teachers
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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Going To And From School

Going To And From School
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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Going To And From School

Going To And From School
Jill recalls going to and from school in Clare, South Australia during the 1950's.  
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Dining On Turkey...In Turkey....At Thanksgiving

Dining On Turkey...In Turkey....At Thanksgiving
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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My pets

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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A Fast Ride

A Fast Ride
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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Why is Missouri Called the "Show-Me" State?

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

My Fathers Story
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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Sport at school

Sport at school
Margaret talks about sport at school in Lincoln, UK during the late 1930's and early 1940's.
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After School

After School
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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My Maternal Grandparents

 

My Grandparents Hebron and Electa Huffman

 

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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The Fragrance of Spring Flowers

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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Favorite Essence

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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A Narrow Escape

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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Family Meals

Jill recalls family meals while growing up in Clare, South Australia.  
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My Dad, my best family friend

My Dad, my best family friend
Jill remembers her Dad, her best family friend.
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Clamming in Chincoteague Bay

Clamming in Chincoteague Bay
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Discovering Chincoteague Bay- An Update February 2012 ...The future excites us and stirs our thoughts about what the next adventures will bring. While many of the older Chronicles of a Footloose Forester were about memories captured...
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"'Adams' Family Rap"

Now I’d like to introduce this fine lot

From Papa to Doyle – the very last tot.

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My Favourite Room

Joyce talks about her favourite room when she was a child growing up in Peterborough, South Australia.
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My Dad, my best family friend

My Dad, my best family friend
Joyce grew up in Peterborough, South Australia during the Second World War when Peterborough was a busy railway junction. Joyce talks about her Dad, her best friend.
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