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When I was very young, I thought everyone was like me. I soon came to discover that this was not the case. As I reflect, I realize that my life has been anything but ordinary and consequently, I want to share as much as I can remember before I am unable...
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Alice talks about her relationship with her stepfather
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Juidith talks about her childhood homes at Palmwoods and Mapleton, Queensland
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Jill talks about her favourite room in her home in Clare South Australia
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When I was about 20 years old I remember my mother being so grieved about a walnut tree that was being cut down at her old homeplace. She asked the owner of her old homeplace for some of the wood. Finally, she decided to have picture frames made from the walnut...
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MY FATHER’S TABLE No matter how meticulously the table was set, my father always moved the knife and fork either towards or away from the plate by about one thirty second of an inch. He worked in a factory making...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek An Apple Tree Speaks Note dangling from our apple tree: FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS SIT AND REST AWHILE IN THE SHADE OF MY BRANCHES. ENJOY ONE OF MY APPLES WHILE RESTING. LOOK UP, LOOK...
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WE RECIEVED THE LITTLE DAISY LOOM FROM THE FAMILY OF MRS BLANCHE LOWERY (BRAYMER, MO) MRS LOWERY WAS STILL MAKING RUGS ON THE LOOM AS OF 2000. MRS LOWERY TOLD HER FAMILY THAT SHE WANTED THE LOOM TO STAY IN CALDWELL COUNTY. AFTER WE RECIEVED THE LOOM FROM THE LOWERY FAMILY,...
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Did you ever have a place you thought was magical during your childhood?
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Bob talks about his childhood home in Lockleys, a suburb of Adelaide
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Margaret tells the tale of her first day at school and everything seemed better after that... Copied from St Giles Secondary School Occasional Papers
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Callie Lynch was my maternal great grandmother who lived her entire life in the same community in central Virginia where she died in 1949. She was a mother and homemaker and had a husband who adored her. They had four sons and three daughters. My memory of her is how thin...
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Jill talks about her childhood home in Clare, South Australia.
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The first school Margaret attended was St Giles Infants School in Lincoln, Great Britain in the 1930s. Margaret recalls her first school and shows how times were different then.
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The war was over by the time I got there. Since I could speak the Polish language fluently and could read and write it, I did get to work as an interpreter for a while. During the Nuremberg trials, for instance, when they had somebody testify at the trials who was...
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My name is Bernie Jackson. I was born May 20th of 1928. I'm talking about my five brothers. They were the big heroes. I was talking with my brother-in-law, who is 91 years old now. We were talking at the kitchen table at my brother's house. He was on his way...
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Who was the first person to be nominated to be president of the United States? George Washington didn't really want it. This person spent quite a bit of time at Thomas Jefferson's house before that, when they were setting up the Government. (From an observer: "Was this person Polish?") He saved...
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Joyce talks about her early school days in Peterborough, South Australia towards the end of WWII.
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