This story details a crime committed in the 1930s and the life sentence I drew ...
In the 1940s, when I was in elementary school, we didn’t have much money. But ...
I wonder how many people remember the Tasker Project in Philadelphia during the 1940s. Our ...
I once did something that, thank goodness, my own kids never tried: I ran away ...
There were quite a few sugar maple trees on our grandparents’ farm in 1937, so ...
Remember these Purple People Eater hats? My daughters Kathy and Valerie are proudly wearing theirs ...
I grew up in a small community in the mountains of Avery County, North Carolina, ...
“There,” I said as I pasted on the last little window box filled with flowers. ...
Today I heard Dolly Parton’s beautiful song Coat of Many Colors, and once again it ...
By Leland H. Schmitz Rosamond, Illinois I attended an old one-room country school in the ...
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