Voices of Ancestors has an amazing blog similar to mine. She has something my blog doesn’t have, however. Her information goes generations back. It’s amazing to read. Humbling really. Sherry E. Rier wrote a Memorial Day Post, (I did not, shame on me) and it is very bittersweet. Please check out this wonderful blog. Memorial…
Month: June 2017
That Letter Will Be Appreciated
https://www.loc.gov/item/98508422/ In October, 1938, Babu writes: Monday, October 3rd, 1938 It’s nice to ride to work in company in the morning. Three of the girls go to Bay Path and Jamie’s sister goes to civil service. This is National Letter Writing Week so I answered two letters. Mom is still taking Evelyn’s place at the…
October, 1938
One of my favorite months. My favorite season, my favorite flavors, and my favorite holiday. I wouldn’t be thinking about autumn if it weren’t for chronology. It simply was the newest month I needed to transcribe and write about. In now life, spring is beginning to wrap up and summer is on its way. And…
The Great Hurricane of 1938
It seems the powers that be, or mother nature, or…some entity had it out for us in the 1930s. I always marveled at how the Stock Market Crash and The Great Depression weren’t enough karmic punishment, (for what I don’t know!) but there was The Dust Bowl to make things even worse. Now as I’m…
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