Dick Pellek

The Survey Revealed A Misplaced Spring

The Survey Revealed A Misplaced Spring
On the road …again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   California A Memorable Survey in the Sierra Nevadas   When he worked for Cal-Pacific Forest Consultants in the early 1960s, the Footloose Forester held a position that might be described as a Junior Forester, a...
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Dick Pellek

Hitchhiking Is Now Just A Memory

Hitchhiking Is Now Just A Memory
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   The Hitchhiker Years before he would call himself the Footloose Forester , a restless boy who liked to be on the road, again…and again…and again, often saw places near home by hitchhiking there. His parents did...
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Dick Pellek

The Peace Corps Jocks

The Peace Corps Jocks
  On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     The Peace Corps Jocks Nobody would believe it if you told them that a rag-tag crew of a mere handful of Peace Corps Volunteers would whip the Pakistanis in both basketball and volley ball...
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Dick Pellek

25 Foot Waves Made The Passage Exciting

25 Foot Waves Made The Passage Exciting
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Santo Antão, Cape Verde   There were so many adventures packed into the memory of Santo Antão that Footloose Forester sometimes forgets that he was a paid employee on various work assignments there.  Perhaps the most...
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Dick Pellek

Burundi, Rwanda, And Genocide

Burundi, Rwanda, And Genocide
  On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Burundi is Rwanda's Neighbor and Shared the Same Genocide In the first couple of years that the Footloose Forester visited the United Nations-funded government building at Rhuengheri on a regular basis, it was satisfying...
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Dick Pellek

The Rhine River Froze Over

The Rhine River Froze Over
  On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   The Rhine Freezes Over   There are times when you and those around you are not truly appreciative of the things and events in your midst.  As a soldier in Germany during the early...
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Dick Pellek

Tea Plants On The Caspian Shore

Tea Plants On The Caspian Shore
  On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   I for Iran Some of the nastiest tasting tea in the world can be sipped on the shores of the Caspian Sea, right where the tea bushes grow. Of course, the Iranians are proud of...
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Dick Pellek

How Did The Surveying Teacher Know Where The Canberra Bomber Was Headed?

How Did The Surveying Teacher Know Where The Canberra Bomber Was Headed?
  On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   A Practical Lesson in Compass Reading   Being around the action in Viet Nam for almost three years led to plenty of predictable moments of violence.  But some of the earlier and later encounters were...
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Dick Pellek

Elk City Was Wild Enough

Elk City Was Wild Enough
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Remembering Elk City, Idaho   Remembering Elk City as it was does not serve any purpose in the present context.  First of all, there now is a paved road (Idaho State Road #14) leading from the...
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Patricia A Pitterle

1976 The Teton Dam

1976 The Teton Dam
    Memoir Monday - Called to Do a Work   Rescue a story about an event or action you felt called to do. This story will be a valuable addition to your legacy stories collection. I would say that one of the greatest things that I have been called to...
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Elizabeth DuClose

Dora and the Piano

Dora and the Piano
In September 1964, when I was a teenager of 17, Hurricane Dora came to town. My family was fairly well prepared for a storm. We lived in a single story concrete block house in a Southside neighborhood, and, since we were a family that camped out a lot, we had cooking...
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Millard Don Carriker

The Summer of Lefty

  NOTE: This is a "Coming of Age" story. It isn’t pretty nor is it pleasant for me to recall. But life consists of pleasure, pain, success, failure, ugliness and beauty. If my legacy consists of memories of significant events in my life and if it is to be complete and honest, it...
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Dick Pellek

Those Untold Secrets

Those Untold Secrets
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek                                         Those Untold Secrets     Every month Legacy Stories encourages members to submit entries and thus keep...
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Patricia A Pitterle

What were you afraid of when you were a child?

What were you afraid of when you were a child?
    What is something you were afraid of as a child? For me, it was always the dark.  I was terrified of the night.  That blanket of darkness that would swoop down and take away my sight.  My heart would thump in my chest and I just knew that something...
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Dick Pellek

How Do We Know If We Are Making An Impression?

How Do We Know If We Are Making An Impression?
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   How Do We Know If We Are Making An Impression?   All too often in our daily lives, we are just guessing about how we are perceived by others.  The impressions we make in some face-to-face...
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Legacy Blog

Hope in Adversity

Hope in Adversity
Add a story, photo or Pict-Oral Memory tm  about hope in adversity Adversity: Recovering Heroes They say that angels come in many forms, and we sense their nearness when, in crisis, help arrives. But sometimes, in the aftermath of what they do best, our heroes need healing, too. On September 11,...
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Dick Pellek

A Resume Never Read

A Resume Never Read
On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   A Résumé Never Read   With the massive outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa in recent months, the Footloose Forester was reminded that the US Agency for International Development, or U.S.A.I.D., is one...
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Patricia A Pitterle

One of my greatest Life's challenges

I have had many challenges in my life. Some, I overcome with grace and perseverance, some, well, not so much. I think the one that has been the hardest one for me is depression. It is so much like the cloudy night sky in the picture that I took above. The...
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Patricia A Pitterle

First Grade

First Grade
  REMINISCENCES Where did you attend first grade? Memory Triggers-  Favorite teacher, classroom walls, best 1st grade friend, favorite activity. I went to first grade at Laird Elementary School in Tempe AZ.  I don't even remember the name of my first grade teacher, although I do know that I loved her....
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Patricia A Pitterle

Talents

Talents
  Describe a special talent you have used to your advantage.   I suppose that the only talent I have used to my advantage is writing.  I never knew how to write.  When I was young, I did not get good grades in English.  I did however, read like a crazy...
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