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Joyce Pounsett

My years at Primary School

Joyces tells us what it was like to go to three different primary schools - Peterborough, East Adelaide and Magill Schools in South Australia
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Alice Domagalski

What We Did After School

What We Did After School
Alice grew up n Laura South Australia during the 1930's & 40s. In theis story Alice talks about what she did after school because children in those days usually had tasks to do other than homework. This photo shows Alice with her parents in 1936.
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Joyce Pounsett

School Sports

Joyce talks about playing basketball (netball) and tennis with the school teams and her structured PE lessons at primary school.  
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My first post

Testing testing testing
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Jill Sayner

My favourite subjects at school

Jill's favourite school subjects were all activity based, where she could illustrate topics and use her practical skills.  Subjects included Geography, Poetry, Bible History and Sewing.
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Patricia White

First Day of School 1948

First Day of School 1948
It seemed like this day would never come!  Forever I had begged my mother to "teach me to read!"  My dad would buy me 'funny books' (comic books) at the drugstore.  My favorites were Donald Duck and Goofy.  I also had favorite stories like Goldilocks and theThree Bears, Cinderella, and Chicken...
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Annette Lorenz

My First Job

Annette talks about her first job.....    
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Jill Sayner

Sports at school

Jill talks about sports day at her primary school in Clare.  Sports Days were not fun for Jill, but she participated in tunnel ball, overhead ball, flag and running races. She also played basketball and participated in dancing.
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Bill Corey

My First Crush

My First Crush
Bill talks about his first crush and how it got crushed by sailing......  
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Margaret Crowe

My First Job As A Handicraft Instructor

My First Job As A Handicraft Instructor
Margaret talks about her first job as a handicraft instructor......
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Golden V. Adams Jr.

William Henry Adams (1817-1898)

. . . lived on sego lily bulbs and thistle roots.  They were grateful to find mushrooms growing from under the shavings of the logs with which they had built the house .

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Dick Pellek

Confession Of A Practical Joker

Confession Of A Practical Joker
    On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Confession Of A Practical Joker   The text of the following spoof was culled from the black heart of a practical joker who calls himself the Footloose Forester.  He sometimes risked official displeasure with...
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Dick Pellek

Mesa Verde Is Part of Our National Legacy

Mesa Verde Is Part of Our National Legacy
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia C hronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Mesa Verde, Colorado From among the hundreds of pictures of Pueblo Indian culture discovered at Mesa Verde in Colorado that one finds on the Internet, almost all focus on relatively up-close snapshots of dwellings, tools, utensils...
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Dick Pellek

The First Time I Met Up With A .......

The First Time I Met Up With A .......
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forestery Dick Pellek   The First Time I Met Up With A ….. Many vivid memories are about the first time that the Footloose Forester met a wild or dangerous animal, face to face. Early memories are about small animals caught...
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Jill Sayner

Recollections of my years at St Joseph's School

Jill shares her memories of school at St Joseph's, her love of reading and her horror of mental arithmetic.  
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Judith Black

What we did as children after school

Judith describes her after school activities at Loftus NSW which included buying bags of biscuits, climbing a cliff and walking along the rockface.  When she went home the long way past the plaster factory, she would collect plaster pieces to use a chalk to draw hopscotch.  Judith and her siblings also...
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Women in Music-Columbus

Memories of Mary Lane

Memories of Mary Lane
I, Ned Behrman, was the 'cellist in a regular quartet that played at Mary's house during the approximate years 1980-1983.  We played the standard repertoire, except that at Mary's urging we went through every Haydn quartet in the four-volume Peters Edition during that time.  She was anxious to play them all...
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Melanie Murphy-corwin

A Memory Triggered by a Song

Since my father was a professional musician, music is an integral part of my life.  However, one song that triggers a memory is "Volare".  I don't hear it that often anymore but just two weeks ago, my husband and I went to see the new Woody Allen, "From Rome with Love". ...
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Melanie Murphy-corwin

Books

When I was 11, my parents took me to Europe.  We traveled by train within Italy and on one train - it might have been from Naples to Rome - we sat in a compartment with a lovely, older British couple.  The man was reading a book and the cover intrigued...
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Leonard Enlow

Civil War Story of my 3rd Cousins, Twice Removed.

Stories of Enlow Genealogy By Leonard Enlow   This is a Civil War story about two brothers, George and Jesse Sprowls, who were my 3 rd cousins twice removed. They joined Company K Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers during the month of August 1862 in Washington County which is in the...
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