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I grew up in a railway town called Peterborough in the outback of South Australia. Times were far different then and this story testifies to that.
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My name is Alice Domagalski. I lived most of my married life in a place called Edilillie on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. We were not too far from Port Lincoln where my husband Stan and I turned an old blacksmith's shop into a home and a farm over a...
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In 1998 I went to work for a local family owned medical supply company; owners were friends of my family. It was the beginning of my love for geneology and finding my roots. The owners of this company were E.J. and Rob Taylor. Rob was born in Scotland and came to...
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When I was just a little boy, it was kind of an old-fashioned kind of farm. We had all kind of livestock -- hogs and cattle and a few sheep and a chicken house full of chickens and so on. We were pretty self sufficient. In the fall when it would...
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It took me a bit to recall any slogans or mottoes used in my family, but they've started to come, so I've started to type. "Kwicherbellyakin" - I don't know if that's spelled correctly, according to Grandma Jolley's wooden plaque that used to hang above one of the doors in her...
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I remember by grandpa W.A. Adams giving me a bit of his wisdom. He always liked to share slogans and sayings, and had lots of them to share with others. I remember one in particular. In his nineties, there were times that he could see that I was frustrated as a...
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I recently went through my book of remembrance looking at pictures and reading excerpts of the letters. My mother compiled it year by year as I grew up with at least one picture every year and a letter from her and/or my dad describing things that happened that year. In each...
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My mother was the source of a few sayings that have survived her. One she used grated on my nerves each time I heard it. It had to do with my doing "chores" around the house. I honestly wasn't burdened with very many but once in a while when I was...
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This is a story my dad particularly requested several months ago. My 5-year-old son came home after church one Sunday with a picture he had drawn in Sunday School. It showed a large circle divided in two sections. On the left, Ryan explained, he had drawn stick figures representing Grandma (Diane...
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Bill Corey talks about his favourite childhood room.
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Bill Corey talks about growing up in Tarlee, South Australia in the 1920's.
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I have heard so many talks and presentations that include something like this: "When I was a kid, my parents used to always tell me, 'Remember who you are and what you stand for.'" Then they proceed to explain they didn't know what that meant until years later. I had the...
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My second cousin Ada Fralin was a remarkable woman for her time. As a nine-year-old she lost her mom to cancer. Being the only girl in the family with two brothers and a dad committed to farming, she assumed the tasks of an adult at a very young age. She became...
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