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Cynthia continues her story about her day as a garbage collector - March 02 1984.

Still on the subject of work Ruth recalls some co-workers and colleagues when she worked in the typing pool of a government department.

Seventy years on Shirley remembers finishing her job at Myer and having to do war work in a munitions factory..

Margaret talks about her first job in the 1940's.  

On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Working As A Career Sharing personal stories with family and friends about where we worked is an easy topic to open a conversation. Each of us has a treasure trove of stories locked away in our...

We hiked up to Sandstone Peak and completed the loop over to Inspiration Point and beyond to balancing rock. Sandstone Peak is the highest point in the Santa Monica Mountain and is on the Back Bone Trail! That you can also go over to Inspiration Point, and then the most improbable...

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ORIN AUSTIN SEAGER     I was born September 14, 1872 in the little village of Tyrrel Hill, Trumbull County, Ohio, to Mary Emeline Tyrrell Seager. My father, Orin Barber Seager had died April 23, 1872 at the age of 29 of inflammatory rheumatism, five months before my birth....

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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia    Chronicles of a FootlooseForester By Dick Pellek    Forest Research Sometimes Comes To Naught After getting a small grant to research a few selected teak plantations in Central America, compliments of the Organization for Tropical Studies, the Footloose Forester chose Costa Rica, Panama and...

Alice continues the story of her husband Stan and the 18 other Polish migrants to Australia in 1949. All were in search of a home following the trauma of the Second World War.  

Lisa loves writing poetry and this is but one example....a story of a 6 year old  

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...

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...

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...

Ruth talks about her friends when she was younger..

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...