Babu writes (prepare to chuckle, if you are anything like me): June 11, 1941, Had a letter and some pictures from Jakey. I told myself to keep quiet about any plans to go South because they may not formulate, but I still talk. Why do I have such a garrulous tongue? Went to choir rehearsal…
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Jake Gets the News
May 24, 1941, I had no plans for this evening. Was taking a bath when Ed came up. He asked me to go to a show. We went to Hartford and saw Count Bernie Vici and his show and a picture “Redhead.” We stopped for ice cream and Ed brought me out a box full…
Retro Wednesday: The Great New England Airshow: Part Two
Wednesday came around again and I decided I just wasn’t done writing about this. Before you begin this post, refresh your memory about last week’s post, if you wish. Retro Wednesday: The Great New England Airshow Also, please check out last Thursday’s post as well where I explain the picture of Babu and Ernie by…
Throw Back Thursday
Since I am so obsessed these days with airplanes and flight, I thought I’d go back to a post that explains the image I used in yesterday’s post: Blessed Life! This is a post about passages from 1937. I thought the picture from way back then would be a great one to put in my…
Retro Wednesday: The Great New England Airshow
A rumble, kind of a cracking rumble. A kind of cracking, tearing, rumble. And then it is out from behind the clouds, overhead, and then gone. Fighter planes and stunt men, and much, much more, put on quite a quite a show at Westover Airforce Base this weekend. What could be better than standing on…
Retro Wednesday: The Springfield Airport
Leave our home and head to the top of Bonneville. Take a left and go down Fairview which shifts onto Abbey Memorial. Pass the cemetery and Szot Park and come to the lights. Take a right then a quick left, unless you want some Papa John’s. You are in what my husband and I and…
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