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Golden V. Adams Jr.

What's in a Name?

Prompt:  What nicknames have you had? Who knew you that way? How did the nickname come about? Which nicknames do you like or dislike? As I look back over my lifetime, my earliest nickname was "little sammy".  Some of my father's friends called him "Sam" and I don't know who or...
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Rachel Johnson

A Family in Flux

A Family in Flux
A family in flux.  In the last year my family has been in flux.  Through this time family history has been a recurring thread.  On my Mothers side there is a tapestry being created.  On my Dads side that same tapestry is unraveling.  With my daughter, the tapestry is weaving a...
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Ernest Daniel Kingsley

On Getting the Right Attitude

  On Getting The Right Attitude ...           No one can make you happy, or unhappy.  You may become that way, but trust me, 95% of the time, you will shape your happiness with your attitude.  And it is only a matter of convenience just how offended you can be about...
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Dick Pellek

A Very Strange Bird Is The Pelican

A Very Strange Bird Is The Pelican
  On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   A Very Strange Bird Is The Pelican Having a short name with only 6 letters didn’t limit the number of ways his family name was mispronounced or misspelled. In junk mail, in particular, it...
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Dick Pellek

Under the WiliWili Tree

Under the WiliWili Tree
On the road …again!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Under the WiliWili Tree   Starting just as soon as it gets light, you can see one or two people stooping over to pick something up from the grass under the WiliWili Tree.  Local residents,...
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Joyce Pounsett

My Sister Janet

My Sister Janet
Joyce talks about her childhood and her younger sister Janet and her arrival in Joyce's life.  
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Judith Black

My Brothers and Sisters

My Brothers and Sisters
Judith talks about her siblings. She begins with the story of her walking out when her mother brought home her baby brother. The fuss over the first born son annoyed her so much that she staged her first protest!
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Bill Corey

My Parents and Siblings

My Parents and Siblings
Bill recalls his parents. His father was a butcher by trade and Bill was born in Riverton South Australia before moving the short distance to Tarlee where he lived in the house that is now the Grasshopper Roadhouse.  
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Ruth Henderson

My Mother

My Mother
Continuing her story of her parents, Ruth recalls her mother.
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Graham Maskell

My Siblings

My Siblings
Graham recalls elder sister Joy who baked great rock buns and looked after her younger brother.
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Alice Domagalski

My Siblings

My Siblings
Alice recalls her childhood growing up in an extended family. Her father had been married before so Alice inherited other siblings.
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Margaret Crowe

My Siblings

My Siblings
Margaret recalls her brothers and sister and her happy childhood.
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Pat Carlson

An Orphan Discovers Her Family

An Orphan Discovers Her Family
Pat recalls the trauma and joy of discovering her extended family after so many years of knowing only that she  was an orphan.
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Helen Walker

My siblings

My siblings
Helen tells us about her relationship with her four siblings - Geraldine, David, Susan and Jo-anne.  Geraldine was tragically killed in a horse riding accident when she was a teenager.      
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Helen Walker

My Extended Family

My Extended Family
With her real extended family in the United Kingdom Helen's family adopted friends and neighbours in Whyalla as their extended family - like so many migrants from abroad.
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Golden V. Adams Jr.

How a Bucket of Paint Saved my Life

How a Bucket of Paint Saved my Life
(image- Daily Herald , Provo, Utah 20 Feb 2013) This morning, 19 February 2013, after I finished a few  things around the house, I had a job to finish in Provo, Utah.  Over the past week, I have been working on repairing a wall in the Jolley Apartments, a rental owned...
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Loretta Heindrichs

I Met Chuck Berry

  This article appeared in the Sun Sentinel   (serving Avon, Avon Lake and North Ridgeville since 1990)  on Thursday, September 6, 2012 My first job was working in the concession stand at the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Civic Auditorium.  I was in high school in the late 50’s and it was...
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Cheryl Bills

Eunice "Naomi" Gransbury Wayment

  Eunice Naomi Gransbury Wayment     BIRTH FAMILY:   Eunice "Naomi" (pronounced Naoma) was born on 28 March 1904 at Albion, Cassia, Idaho to Charles Wesley Gransbury and Jennie Louise Parrot.  She was the only daughter in a family with five brothers:  Orval Howard born 20 Nov 1901; Walter Charles...
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Dick Pellek

Anecdotes About Flying-Part II

Anecdotes About Flying-Part II
  On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Anecdotes About Flying- Part II The Terminals and the Tarmac   With more than 700 flights under his belt, the Footloose Forester didn’t need to think too hard about some of the quirks of flying. ...
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Deborah Tomasetti Perham

FIFTEEN MINUTES OF FAME - DURING DINNERTIME

Some of my earliest memories, throughout the ‘60s and ‘70s, are of sitting around the dinner table with my mom, dad, and sister. Dinner was at 5 o’clock prompt. Mom cooked every night. It was just something we did. Didn’t everyone? When I began working in NYC and not getting off...
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