Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Depression Lesson

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When I was a kid of ten, I was a brat. We were poor, like most everyone else in town, but Mom and Dad provided well for us in the matter of...
Monday, August 18, 2008

Strawberries!!!

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In the early Thirties, summers in Mars Hill were magic. We had no TV, no computers, and no incentive to stay indoors. We went barefooted, r...
Sunday, August 17, 2008

Fun in the Fifties

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In our early married years, when our two daughters were in their young teens, Sunday was family day, and the afternoon was reserved for fa...
Saturday, August 16, 2008

Great Grandma Returns to the Blogk

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It's been three months -- my mind went blank when I fell and hit my head! But you can't keep a good 85-year-old down when she has s...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Published at Last

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I fell in love with poetry when I was six or seven years old. All the little nursery rhymes were so sweet to my ear. I memorized them and ...
Monday, April 28, 2008

The Bicycle

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I never had my own bicycle. Family finances did not allow for more than one bike in the family. It was therefore decided one boy's bik...
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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Bars

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As far as my very first memory of being in this world, I could have followed "Mr. Bean" on his "point of light." Suddenl...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

"Lizzie"

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In 1944 we acquired a neat little Model A. Money was scarce and an old lady who had been told not to drive any more was getting rid of her ...
Monday, April 14, 2008

School Days, May Days

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Grade school was a piece of cake with frosting on it for me. For Tillie, it was more like burnt toast. I had a teacher at home for a mom. ...

To Horse, To Horse

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Horses and I do not have a great history, even though I love them and think they are one of the most beautiful and useful creatures on earth...
Saturday, April 12, 2008

Washday--Now and Then

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Timeline: March 2008. I gather up all my soiled clothes, drop them in a shiny white machine, add a little powdered detergent, push a button ...

Goldie and Seth

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In the mid-thirties, Tillie and I were real church-goers. We went to youth group, prayer meetings, regular Sunday services, vacation Bible ...
Thursday, April 10, 2008

Grandpa John and the Little House

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When Grandma Bertha and Grandpa John got too old to handle the big house below the church and moved to the small cottage beside Eliza and Is...

Prohibition and 3.2

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During the prohibition years, the people, of Aroostook County, never at a loss for ingenuity, came up with their own brew--3.2. A very mild...
Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Uncle Morley's 7 Little Blessings--Part II

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Dicky, Uncle Morley's next youngest, liked to visit Aunt Min and Uncle Perce on the farm, as I did. One year he and I both shared the h...

Uncle Morley and 7 Little Blessings

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Uncle Morley, mom's brother, and Aunt Alice lived in the parsonage across the street from the Baptist Church where he was pastor for sev...
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Little Midwives

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Sometime after Snookums had her kittens in my bed, I told Frances about the blessed event. She said that was nothing--one of her cats was ex...
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Big Red Barn--Part III

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One Fourth of July, we were favored by a visit from Dad's sister Minnie and husband Bert from Millinocket. We were always happy and exci...
Monday, April 7, 2008

Big Red Barn--Part II

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When Billy came to pick up the pig's head, as usual he brought some kind of thank you gift. This time it was a potato basket filled with...
Sunday, April 6, 2008

The Big Red Barn--Part I

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I believe the big red barn preceded the building of our house. It had always been there from the time I was small, and it had been built for...
Saturday, April 5, 2008

Aunt Mabel

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Aunt Mabel was always an enigma to me. During the Great Depression, I only knew her as a distant relative on my father's side, who live...
Thursday, April 3, 2008

Mom's Little Boarders

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Everyone, cousins big and small, loved to come and visit "Aunt Grace," as they called my Mom. Two, in particular, stand out in my ...
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Family Beginnings

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Apparently Grandma Bertha and Grandpa John believed in the Bible literally where God said, "Go out and repopulate the Earth." They...

The Train Ride

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Winning the Public Speaking contest turned me unexpectedly into a minor celebrity --temporarily. Of course all celebrity is temporary. But...
Monday, March 31, 2008

Kith and Kin

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I had cousins, aunts and uncles all over New England and beyond. In the 1930's, Mom and Dad took us on a trip to Canada, where we had ...