There are a number of stories and legends behind Missouri's sobriquet "Show-Me" state. The slogan is not official, but is common throughout the state and is used on Missouri license plates. The most widely known legend attributes the phrase to Missouri's U.S. Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver, who served in the United...
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My Fathers STORY (George Russell Enlow, son of Benson Campbell Enlow & Idesta Danley) With the little bit that I can remember I will try to recall some of my life before I was married. Born June 9, 1915 in Donora, Pa., which is south of Pittsburgh on the Monongahela River. ...
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Joyce recalls what she did after school when she lived in Peterborough,South Australia as a child in the 1940's
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This is a picture of my grandparents on my mother's side of the family. It was Abram Huffman and Electa Peyton Huffman.
That's my mother to the right of them.
When this picture was taken, it was close to their house. And I can see the big grape arbor that they had. They had a wash house and coal house built as one building. It was like two rooms. One was the wash room and the other was the coal house.
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I've smelled cows, and I'm tired of smelling cows. That's the reason I got away from them. They are very stinky beasts. And when you are around livestock, you smell like livestock. It's just -- I don't know, there are a lot of nice things. In the spring when the flowers...
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Throughout my life I have come across a lot of smells. One of the smells I enjoyed a lot was Estae Lauder used to make a perfume. I think they called it Estae. I thought that was the best smelling stuff I ever came across. I found out what it was...
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I think this was around the time I was in the sixth or seventh grade or something. Anyhow, while we were sitting there in the classroom, the nun had me get up. I used to be an altar boy, and we had to speak our prayers in Latin. She was...
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Jill recalls family meals while growing up in Clare, South Australia.
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Discovering Chincoteague Bay- An Update February 2012 ...The future excites us and stirs our thoughts about what the next adventures will bring. While many of the older Chronicles of a Footloose Forester were about memories captured...
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Now I’d like to introduce this fine lot
From Papa to Doyle – the very last tot.
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Joyce talks about her favourite room when she was a child growing up in Peterborough, South Australia.
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Joyce grew up in Peterborough, South Australia during the Second World War when Peterborough was a busy railway junction. Joyce talks about her Dad, her best friend.
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Annette talks about the kitchen in her home at Watson, out on the Nullarbor Plain, in 1967. Annette moved there as a 16 year old bride. Watson is where the red line starts denoting the Trans uUstralia Railway starts to level out. Annette's house was the sixth one along, second from...
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Annette talks about what she did when she returned from school in Adelaide, South AUstralia during the 1950's.
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When I was very young, I thought everyone was like me. I soon came to discover that this was not the case. As I reflect, I realize that my life has been anything but ordinary and consequently, I want to share as much as I can remember before I am unable...
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Alice talks about her relationship with her stepfather
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Juidith talks about her childhood homes at Palmwoods and Mapleton, Queensland
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