Walking To and From School

Walking To and From School
Annette remembers walking to and from school in Kensington, South Australia during the 1950's & early 1960's.    
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Family Meals

Family Meals
Annette recalls family meals while growing up in the 1950's in Adelaide.
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Family Meals

Family Meals
Family meals in the 1930's and 1940's were a lot different than today. Alice talks about her memories of family meals way back then.
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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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Who's the Snitch?

Ruth tells of her mother bottling fruits and vegetables and storing them in the cellar on Seventh East in Salt Lake City, Utah and how she caught the family member that was "snitching" the food since it was disappearing.
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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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Green Apples, or Worse?

Ruth remembers, as a young girl, how she and her brother, Joseph, loved to climb apples trees and eat green apples but after one such experience, Joseph became very ill and almost lost his life.
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My Teenage Brothers' Streetcar Activities

Ruth tells of activities of her brothers Ted and Hank who were in their teens when she was in her early childhood, and how she worried about their involvement with the streetcars that ran in front of their home on Seventh East in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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When we were cold or sick. . . .

Ruth tells childhood memories of cold winter nights in unheated bedrooms and keeping warm when sick as a child.
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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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Pets

As a child and growing up, because we lived in the busy city and times were difficult through the Great Depression, I never had a pet of my own.  But my brother, Hank, was very fond of cats.  In fact, Hank was in to cats.  He had one that had a...
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My Brother, My Hero

My Brother, My Hero
On Sunday, July 1, 2012 I attended church just as I always do. This Sunday was the Sunday before the 4th of July, America's Independence Day. As I listened to "America The Beautiful" being sung by the congregation, my thoughts turned to my brother, Steven. He is my hero. Steven always...
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"Fishing" at Nibley Park

"Fishing" at Nibley Park
Ruth remembers how she and her older brother, Joseph, would walk to Nibley Park, Salt Lake City Utah and fish in the lake at the golf course when she was about eight years old.  Joseph was three years older.  
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France Was Always A Bit Special

France Was Always A Bit Special
    On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   F  is for France If you watch closely, you can see the French countryside taking shape in stark contrast to the Swiss countryside along its common border, as you clear the customs station at...
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My best subject at school

My best subject at school
Margaret recalls her school days and talks about her best subject at school...
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Board games, favourite books and outdoor activities

Jill talks about playing board games as a child, her favourite books and outdoor activities and her friend, Maria.      
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A Simple Math Problem

A Simple Math Problem
On the road... again..! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   A Simple Math Problem   How do you divide 6 chapattis into equal parts to provide equal portions and a simple lunch for four foresters? The math is simple enough but the problem, at the...
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