Theodore Roosevelt was President of the United States of America. The day of the week was Thursday and Easter was coming in just three days. Five days before, Mt. Vesuvius had erupted and devastated Naples, Italy. In only six days to come, the great San Francisco earthquake would hit California. In Etta Bend, Indian Territory, […]
Feb 14, 2016
Be My Valentine
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Remember how excited we’d get as children on Valentine’s Day, counting those cards, reading the verses, keeping them in boxes? What a sweet custom! It seemed to me that my kindergarteners got more excited about Valentine’s Day than about Christmas. They would decorate white paper sacks which I fastened to the chalk tray then they would […]
Dec 20, 2015
Every Year About This Time
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Christmas is a nostalgic time; there’s no getting around that fact, but it’s not just other Christmases I remember. It’s childhood things; looking back at past summers as well as winters. My younger brother and I were children together. I had an older sister and three older brothers but they grew up, married, joined the Navy, worked […]
Dec 16, 2015
Christmas Concert
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Last night, I went with my family to my granddaughter’s Christmas Concert. What a privilege! Those young people are talented! And beautiful in their neat uniforms and shiny black shoes. They were also attentive. All eyes were on their director and they responded to every nuance in the music and the silent directions from his face […]
Dec 7, 2015
“A Day That Will Live in Infamy”
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared that December 7, 1941 was “a day that will live in infamy.” The attack by Japanese planes on Pearl Harbor on that Sunday morning seventy-four years ago does live on in our history, in memory, and in the hearts of Americans. It was a day when more than 2400 Americans lost […]
Nov 11, 2015
Armistice Day
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It was a different kind of world in 1918. Woodrow Wilson was our 28th President. Postage stamps were three cents apiece, a loaf of bread cost a dime and a gallon of gasoline was eight cents. An epidemic of Spanish flu ravaged the country, causing more than 500,000 deaths. Some of the popular songs were […]
