Category: American Heritage
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July… Almost Over
In the heat of the summer Christmas still feels a world away from now. It’s not though we are less than half a year away from it. Fortunately there are other holidays to enjoy first though we don’t go head first into the season. I know mailing Christmas cards seems to be outdated and extremely…
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Marty
Time is amazing and ongoing. On a pace that everyone has to catch up to regardless of a person’s circumstances. Marty was my mom’s cousin and two years ago the Lord took him home. Like I said, it doesn’t seem like it has already been 2 years… time has just ticked onward. He was a…
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Summer School: Getting Lost
Monday after my class, instead of heading back north on 57 I would be heading in the opposite direction. My time in Evansville had always been with family; never on my own. Yet once I started college I began visiting with Great-Aunt Margaret, Grandpa Freddy’s sister-in-law, I think this was the beginning of my solo…
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Twenty-Four Hours Later
When I went to bed last night, my eye still looked very angry at me. This morning my eye felt sealed shut. I had to open it up and cautiously wash it open, most of the redness gone, but still puffy. I absolutely declare this was not something I conjured up to make a couple…
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Community
Who has been watching or observing the supposed controversy over Jason Aldean’s new song debuted in May? Most of regular America loves this song and the sense of American Small Town Communities. Today I personally witnessed my Community comforting and praying for me after I was afraid of not getting my writing done at all…
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2023… Where Have You Gone?
Doesn’t it seem like we were just at the beginning of the year? What happened to the time? I know I have spent a lot of time with my face pressed against my computer, but not every single minute. Just every other single minute. Some articles have come pretty quickly so I really can’t complain…
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1903
This man was brought into the world at the turn of this new century. So much was happening and on the cusp in this 20th Century. This young boy ended up being in the newspaper quite a bit while growing up into a young man. To make this easier, today is my Great-Grandpa Arla’s Birthday.…
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American Pride Month
Pride is normally something that comes before a fall. Scripture is full of prideful men and women taking their own courses of action. Babylon comes to mind simply because my Church recently had a Vacation Bible School with the decorations vibrant like the city of Babylon would have been that seems a bit ironic right…
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Walking Through History In Letters
Dates are always going off in my head. July 23, 1944 is one of those ‘days of infamy’ in my mind. So this year as usual dates of the letters come to mind when the dates circle round. Today Monday, 17, 2023 is on a Monday like it was in 1944 when Grandpa penciled two…
Jewells of Thought 