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Joyce Pounsett

Bathtime At Peterborough, South Australia in the 1940's

How things have changed. In this week's story Joyce recalls bathtime as a child in Peterborough. The weekly bath on Saturday and the rituals associated with it.  
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Pat Carlson

People I Looked Up To

As Nazareth House, the orphange in which Pat lived, had a no pet policy Pat has chosen to talk about the people who she looked up to at the Orphange.  
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Pat Carlson

Special Guy Fawkes Day

Pat's neighbours when she lived in the orphanage at Plymouth, were the Marines.  And one Guy Fawkes Day the children were invited to share the celebrations organised by the Marines.  
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Helen Walker

Bathtime and Bedtime as a child

Helen remembers bathtime and bedtime in her childhood.  
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Gail Park

Tribute from a son

Tribute from a son
In 1980 I interviewed my dad, Donald Stuart Grant, and asked him about his mother, Ethel Frances Gilchrest Grant. This is what he said: "My mother was a very easy-going person, always finding the good side of people. I never heard her say anything bad about anybody. She would say, "if...
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Gail Park

Heirloom Quilt Square tells a story

Heirloom Quilt Square tells a story
      Here is a photo of a photo of my grandmother, Ethel Frances Gilchrest Grant, at age 18. It was taken at her granduation from "Normal School."  As a homemaker, she would  we ar a ho use dress during the day to do her cleaning, cooking, etc. Then right...
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Gail Park

Connollys from Cork

Connollys from Cork
Denis and Bridget (O'Brien) Connolly lived in Skibbereen, Cork, Ireland during the Irish Potato Famine . They toughed it out through the worst of it, but by the 1870s, the future for 11 children was bleak. Seven (Cornelius "Con", Patrick, Dennis, Thomas (my great-grandfather), Dan, Tim, and John) of the 9...
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Kathleen Yago

One Hot Day: How We Lost the Andersons

One Hot Day: How We Lost the Andersons
The sun had not yet risen in the city and already it was getting hot, not that it had ever really cooled off in the night. Two days before, on Tuesday, a new record was set for the hottest day ever recorded, only for it to be broken the very next...
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Dick Pellek

Florida Gators vs. the Florida gators

Florida Gators vs. the Florida gators
  On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Florida Gators vs. the Florida gators   When he was a Grad Student at the University of Florida, the Footloose Forester witnessed the sudden development and equally sudden departure of a bizarre fad that...
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Anita McLauchlen

My Dream of Cheryl

My Dream of Cheryl
  My Dream of Cheryl By Anita A. Chambers I met Cheryl Ann Posey (later to become Hemingway) in about 1974 when we were both single teens not too far out of high school.  Cheryl was raised a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and I joined...
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Anita McLauchlen

True Stories of Curtis C. Chambers, My Father

True Stories of Curtis C. Chambers, My Father
  “True Stories of Curtis C. Chambers, My Father” Relayed to and Compiled by His Daughter Anita A. Chambers   Story #1 When Curtis was a teenager back in the 1920’s, he had a friend with a nervous disorder that made the young man bald.  The Chambers household at that time...
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Dick Pellek

Hand-Me-Downs

Hand-Me-Downs
  On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Hand-Me-Downs   Once in a while, we hear a remark that is intended as an insult about how another person is dressed.  Wild polka-dot pants or flaming Hawaiian shirts are worn as fashion statements...
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Sherianne Schow

One day on a Train

  One Day on a Train I remember a time during my service in the small French town of Tarbes that our District traveled to Pau for Zone Conference.  I was a  “blue”, and as with many of my fellow missionaries on that train I anticipated the conference eagerly. While we...
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Sherianne Schow

Aunt Ruthie

  Aunt Ruthie  (Goff) Beatrice Macdonald’s sister   Aunt Ruthie was one of my favorite people.  It has been years since I’ve eaten any of her delicious cooking or experienced her warm hospitality – but I can still conjure up the sweet smell of her kitchen.  It’s impeccably clean surfaces still...
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Dick Pellek

In The Third World

In The Third World
  On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Third World Footnotes       You Might Be Middle Class If…                                                You Might...
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Dick Pellek

Novices, Ghost Writers, Editors, and Publishers

Novices, Ghost Writers, Editors, and Publishers
  Novices, Ghost Writers, Editors, and Publishers   Most, if not all, would-be writers are diffident about some aspect of their craft. Even world renowned novelists of the past had their private misgivings about writing well; or even being able to write at all. Writer’s block is a condition that involves...
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Judith Black

Childhood Pets

Judith talks about the pets of her childhood especially a dachshund called "Houndie".  
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Bill Corey

Farm Animals and Pets

Bill recalls farm animals ans "pets" although when he thinks about it back in the 1920's they didn't really have petys as we know them today, besides his dad was the local butcher!  
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Helen Walker

Childhood Pets

This week's topic is childhood pets and Helen tells the Circle about the pets she grew up with in Whyalla, South Australia.  
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Ruth Henderson

Childhood Pets

This week Ruth talks about her childhood and, in particular, her pets from that time.  
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