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Janet Holt

A Night to Remember

    It was after 6:00 when my long day ended and the offices were quiet at last. I surveyed my overflowing desk, then stood and stretched wearily.  Alone in the silence, I could hear the snaps and crackles as I slowly rotated my neck to relieve the day’s tension.  I hoped...
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deanne groves

My Favorite Aunt, Ruth

My Favorite Aunt, Ruth
I received a package in the mail at Christmas when I was about ten years old.  After gently removing the brown mailing paper on the outside, then pulling off the lovely wrapping paper on the inside, I dug through the layers of tissue.  There I found the most beautiful, albeit totally...
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Tom Cormier

Ancestor Surprises

I wish I knew my grandparents better before they passed. What I know of them comes from a few visits as a child and conversations with my parents. Genealogists are often surprised by their discoveries about past family members. But what will my descendants be surprised to know about me? That...
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Dick Pellek

Giving Up Barbershops

Giving Up Barbershops
On the road…again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Giving Up Barbershops Except for the one time he went to a barber in Gainesville, Florida before leaving for the Organization for Tropical Studies study program in Costa Rica in 1970, the Footloose Forester decided to...
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Dick Pellek

Travels By Train

Travels By Train
  On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Travels By Train On his first travels west of the Rocky Mountains, the Footloose Forester had a premonition that he would never again be as happy as he was in the mountains.  Seeing the Rockies...
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Karen Mack

John Blackham, Susannah Lees and Elizabeth Catrine Nielsen

John Blackham, Susannah Lees and Elizabeth Catrine Nielsen
              My Great Great Grandfather and Grandmother               John Blackham                          Susannah Lees                     JOHN BLACKHAM BORN:   14 November 1827 PLACE:   Heaton Norris, Lancashire, England CHRISTENED:  November 1827 BAPTIZED:   4 April 1849 by T. J. Schofield CONFIRMED:  29 April 1849 by...
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Millard Don Carriker

Things I Miss

Things I Miss
This is simply a word picture of something I often experienced as a boy.   As often happens I didn’t know how much I loved these things until I realized they no longer shared my world. Steam Engines:     At the mid-century point of the 20 th Century hundreds of awesome black...
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Bernie Jackson

Training Mission

Training Mission
  When I was in the Navy and we'd be out to sea, once a week we'd have boxing matches.  And the other week we'd have wrestling matches.  It was for entertainment to keep the troops entertained when we were out to sea.  We'd be out six to eight months at...
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Dick Pellek

Measuring Height Is More Reliable Than Eyeballing

Measuring Height Is More Reliable Than Eyeballing
  On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Trinity Center, California A few memoirs are related almost exclusively to forestry ventures, and some of the very sweetest memories are about the sights, sounds and events when Cal-Pacific Forest Consultants had a contract...
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Annie Payne

Murray Rose, the Tumble Turn and Me

Murray Rose, the Tumble Turn and Me
My love of water began early when Dad hoisted me on to his shoulders and waded out into the Pacific Ocean as it reached Queensland’s golden beaches. As he was 6’6 ½” tall, I had a bird’s eye view of the beach as he turned and warned me to “Hang on...
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Millard Don Carriker

Scherherazade Disappeared

Scherherazade Disappeared
As part of the business of our moving into a “Retirement Condo Community” (It is mid-April 2012 as I write this) we have been taking inventory of the tangible “driftwood” that has piled up on the shores of our  lives over the years and disposing of  things that were once useful...
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Dick Pellek

Face Of A VC Soldier Exposed In A Parachute Flare

Face Of A VC Soldier Exposed In A Parachute Flare
  On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Uniform or Not, Civilian or Not   Uniform or not, civilian or not, many of us who spent more than a year in Viet Nam saw lots of action of one form or another. There...
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Golden V. Adams Jr.

Newspapers' Value in Research--and Beyond

Newspapers may just give us the "story behind the story!"

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Diane Mason Gray

Describe unique traits that have been passed down to you by an ancestor.

Being interested in family history since the age of 10 years old, I am keenly aware of some of the many genes I inherited. Firstly, I believe diabetes came to me from my paternal side of the family--the Masons--because Daddy developed Type 2 diabetes in his 40s and I in my 50s. Well,...
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Dick Pellek

A Rare Species of Palm Threatened With Extinction

A Rare Species of Palm Threatened With Extinction
  On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION Attalea   crassispatha (C. Martius) Burret, the "Coco rosse" known only to a handful of botanists and the Haitian villagers in the Southwest of Haiti, may be one of the rarest palms...
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Diane Mason Gray

Make at least one prediction for the future

I think we won't have to carry a phone or computer around with us, that we will be able to simply "call up" a phone or computer in the air and be able to see it and interact with it in whatever way suits us best:  voice, touch, or eye movements.  Automobiles,...
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Dick Pellek

Getting To Morocco On A Pass

Getting To Morocco On A Pass
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Getting To Morocco On A Pass With a hand-written copy of the Rhein-Main flight schedule in his back pocket, Footloose Forester was not sure where he would end up during his first leave period from his...
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Karen B Mack

My Business - You're going to love ....

My Business - You're going to love ....
You're going to love Legacy Stories Forever!!! Not sure where to start or what to do??? Legacy Stories will help you get the start you need – It’s simple, fun and easy !   Share those priceless memories with your loved ones today!!! We’ll help you get -- -- Organized –...
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Heirlooms To Go Ltd

Upsetting the Apple Cart: A Treatise on the Truth of the Fact the Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree

And now, from the planet Mars...

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Linda K Black

I JUST WANTED TO SING

I JUST WANTED TO SING   Bright lights! Beautiful music! Big Celebrities! As an eight year old girl from a small, small town in Arkansas, every day I dreamed of and imagined myself in this spotlight. I was destined to become a star. Could anyone have told me that I would...
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