The land across the sea - poem

Lisa loves writing poetry and this is but one example....a story of a 6 year old  
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These Stones Will Never Wilt

These Stones Will Never Wilt
On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   These Stones Will Never Wilt   Whenever we return to the Netcong, New Jersey area to visit, my wife Thu and I make a visit to Stanhope Union Cemetery as part of the agenda.  That...
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Sources Of The Nile River

Sources Of The Nile River
On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Sources Of The Nile River   Every 4th-grade school child has heard about the Nile River.  Most young ones know that it is in Africa; older students learn that it is the longest river in...
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Edwin Eluene Alfonso Kapaona-Tampos, Sr.

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Bill Corey - Fighting the weather and the Japanese in New Guinea

Bill Corey - Fighting the weather and the Japanese in New Guinea
Bill was at Rostrevor College last week talking to a group of students who were about the go to New Guinea to walk the Kakoda Track. Bill decided to tell them about the rain that falls up there and recounted a story from World War Two when he was fighting the...
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Ruth Payne - Friends

Ruth Payne - Friends
Ruth talks about her friends when she was younger..
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Cynthia Hood - A Day as a 'Garbo'

Cynthia Hood - A Day as a 'Garbo'
Cynthia recalls the days when there were garbage collectors who accompanied the garbage trucks. These 'garbos' as they were known collected the garbage bins and loaded them on to the truck for emptying - and then they rweturned them to where (approximately) they had collected the bin from. Cynthia spent a...
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Pat Carlson - My First Job

Pat Carlson - My First Job
After two years of unpaid hard work Pat got her first paid job as an assistant in the X-Ray Dept of a hospital.
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Lisa Calabria - My First Job

Lisa Calabria - My First Job
Lisa recalls her first job at a men's outfitters in Elizabeth, South Australia in 1961 x
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Shirley Brown - My First Job

Shirley Brown - My First Job
Shirley tells us about her first job when she was 16 at the Myer Emporium...
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Joyce Pounsett - My First Job

Joyce Pounsett - My First Job
Joyce recalls her first job in Adelaide, South Australia..
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Margaret Crowe - My First Job

Margaret Crowe - My First Job
In this story Margaret recalls her first job which was becoming a Wren as it was wartime.
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My First Job

Joyce talks about her first job in Adelaide after having moved down from Peterborough.
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Reading HH Tilbrook's notebook

Jill 's great grandfather HH Tilbrook wrote notebooks of his journeys throughout South Australia. Here she reads the introduction to his journey via rail to the South East of the State.  
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Kidman Rodeo Celebrations 1932

Kidman Rodeo Celebrations 1932
Bill tells us about attending a rodeo at Jubilee Oval in Adelaide.  Sir Sydney Kidman organised the rodeo for the people of South Australia to celebrate his birthday.        
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Knee High By The 4th Of July

Knee High By The 4th Of July
On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Knee-High By The 4 th Of July Growing up in the snow belt of Northern New Jersey, the Footloose Forester was aware of the fact that our little town was about 10 degrees colder than...
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Leola Butler

Leola Butler
Seventy-nine is just fine for this lady born in 1934, in New Mexico. Leola Butler has lived in Salem since1968 when she and her husband, Glen, bought the home in which she still lives.   While in high school she worked at an Indian Trading Post in Ship Rock, New Mexico....
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GROCERY SHOPPING

Grocery shopping with Mother and Daddy was pretty interesting. We shopped on Friday evening because Friday was pay day. I guess it began on Thursday night when we had leftovers for supper, both to pare down the contents of the refrigerator and to avoid waste. Then on Friday morning Mother defrosted and cleaned...
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You Ask Too Many Questions

You Ask Too Many Questions
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   You Ask Too Many Questions   When strangers come together at places like a long line at Disney World, or in the waiting room of a doctor’s office, impromptu conversations sometimes develop as a way to...
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