Joyce Stone

Learning Something Beautiful About Death

    It never occurred to me that I would actually pray for my father to die.  But watching someone suffer from cancer brings changes to people.  Especially if the person suffering is someone we love.     When my father had a lung biopsy which revealed that he had lung cancer, he...
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Module 4- Website Functionality

OVERVIEW The Legacy Stories living history library is much more than a place to preserve and share personal and family history. It is a resource center for all things legacy. It is where you can connect with clients on a purposeful level. And it delivers the magical moment when clients experience...
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Module 3- Pict-Oral Recording Techniques

INTERVIEW AND RECORDING TECHNIQUES   The Recording Process CLICK THE ICON ON THE LOWER RIGHT CORNER OF THE PLAYER TO VIEW FULL SCREEN REVIEW POINTS Be prepared and properly set up Fresh batteries for recorder and scanner Get comfortable in the quietest spot Select "Legacy Photos" from a series Use the...
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Module 1- Mission and Roles

Module 1- Mission and Roles
MODULE ONE MISSION AND ROLES Click on the black tab in the center of the flip book to view in full screen.  Living Legacy Project Preserving Vintage Photos & Media Preserving Keepsakes and Heirlooms Download Videos As an I-ASK CLA, you can use any of these videos for legacy education and...
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Joyce Stone

If I Could Change Ethnicity

    If I could choose an ethnicity to be born in, I would definitely ask to be born a Polynesian!  In my experience there are three  main reasons I would choose this.  First, the people are the most warm and loving I have ever known.  They care.  There are no attachments...
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Dick Pellek

Let's Go Shake The Mango Tree

Let's Go Shake The Mango Tree
  On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Let’s Go Shake The Mango Tree   Mango cubes in his breakfast cereal were more tastebud satisfying and aromatically pleasing than sliced bananas ever were. It took decades of taste testing, mixing of ingredients, and...
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Amy Thomason

Saved by ........The Fog?

Last Sunday the Sr. Pastor at my church taught on the Sovreignty and Providence of God!  One of my favorite topics, and also a lesson I need often, as I tend to query Why way more often than the average bear.  You would think that my family history would have innoculated...
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Christine Cormier

Grandma tell me the story?

Grandma tell me the story?
My Grandmother was born in Austria, Anna Stefkovic, Andreansky, August 3, 1884 and died January 5, 1968 in Irvington, NJ. She's buried at the Hollywood Memorial Cemetery in New Jersey.  Anna Stefkovic, immigrated to this country, as I have been told on a ship. I am not sure if she married...
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Joyce Stone

The Days Of Innocence and Fun On TV

      Television was something very unusual when I was growing up.  In fact, my grandparents had one of the first sets in Las Vegas, New Mexico because it was a retirement gift from his friends on the railroad.  Of course it was black and white but we didn't know about colored...
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Lillian Cormier

He Was Talent Personified

Milton Berle is my all time favorite comedian.  He made me laugh till I cried.  He had more energy  than I've  seen in my lifetime and he never offended anyone in his routine.  I can't say the same about the so called comedians today. There are very few that I can...
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Lillian Cormier

My All Time Favorite TV Show.

It was nineteen forty eight. . My father had a huge, seven inch wide screen portable TV. Once a week I loked forward to the Milton Berle Show.  he mad
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Dick Pellek

Hitting The Trail In The Northwest Frontier Provinces Of Pakistan

Hitting The Trail In The Northwest Frontier Provinces Of Pakistan
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Northwest Frontier Provinces Pakistan On a trek into the Northwest Frontier Provinces of Pakistan, the Swat valley he believes it was -- Footloose Forester arrived with Peace Corps colleagues John Harper and Jerry Jensen at sunset. We...
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Lillian Cormier

The Ups and Downs of Travel

George and I have had our share of traveling and shared quite a few times with Tom and Christine. The phone wrings and Tom says, “Pack a few things for you and Dad we’re going to Mexico for a few days to golf”.  That was Tom, an hour’s notice and off...
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Joyce Stone

AHHHHHHH The Lure Of Mysteries

    Does anything compare with settling into a good mystery?  Yes, finding a good mystery is also a really great activity.  Walking through bookstores or libraries, hearing about a new author from a friend, reading about a new book or writer and especially finding out that one of your favorite authors...
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Joyce Stone

A Woman's True Vacation

    There is a saying that women's work is never done.  If you are a woman, you know that is true.  There is always something else we could be doing for our husband, our children, our home but not too often for ourselves.  We cook, we clean, we grocery shop, get...
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Dick Pellek

Sponges That Taste Good

Sponges That Taste Good
On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Sponges That Tastes Good                                          Since ancient times the use of natural sponges for bathing has...
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Steve Redd

Steve's Kindness by Becca Hager Goodwin

I wasn't good friends with Steve. I was good friends with Amy, his younger sister. I do have a couple of memories of him, and thought you might like to hear them. We were at a church swim party. Steve was in the pool, having a great time. Another young man...
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Ken White

How Interesting Is Your Life?

A few years ago I was so proud of myself to track down a living cousin through an obituary I found searching newspapers in the library. I found where this cousins mother had been buried and went to take pictures of the gravestone. Upon arrival there was something that caught my...
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Steve Redd

Childhood Crush by Andra Kolaric

I met Steve in second grade. Like any red-blooded American girl would, I fell instantly in love with him. I spent grades 4-6 planning my wedding to him and writing in my diary "Andra Redd, Mrs. Andra Redd, Andra Lynn Redd". I think my best friend (Rebecca Reed Davis) and I...
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Steve Redd

Night Stalker Special by Andra Kolaric

Andra Kolaric I met Steve in second grade. Like any red-blooded American girl would, I fell instantly in love with him. I spent grades 4-6 planning my wedding to him and writing in my diary "Andra Redd, Mrs. Andra Redd, Andra Lynn Redd". I think Becky and I almost came to...
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