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Loving father made his mark in 1945

on February 10, 2012

On a warm March morning in 1945, my father took me for a memorable hike ...

Uplifting Stories PROFESSOR PARSE. When Mr. C. (above) diagrammed a sentence, Robert Robeson (class portrait and No. 32 in team photo) and the rest of the class listened.

Former wrestler taught students to grapple with English

on January 20, 2012

His cauliflower ears made him look like he’d endured a series of nasty headlocks from ...

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A sister of substance

on November 15, 2011

“That millionaire character was a real typhoon,” remarked one of my eighth-grade classmates during her ...

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Grandpa’s old pocketknife honed some sharp memories

on September 8, 2011

When I was 5 years old during the mid-1930s, our family lived in a little ...

Uplifting Stories REMEMBERING GRANDMA. Christopher Eckes is pictured as a toddler above with grandma Vivian Rippy and below at the time he wrote a eulogy for her in 1995.

A grandson says his last goodbye in a touching way

on August 25, 2011

Mary Foote of Harrison, Ohio, shared this heartfelt eulogy, which was delivered at the funeral ...

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Grandma’s lessons on patience rated ‘thumbs up’

on July 18, 2011

As a first grader back in 1934, I spent lots of weekends visiting my grandmother. ...

1940s

“Old Fritz” did his part to build morale

on June 30, 2011

When I was a kid, my hometown of West Bend, Wisconsin, always had a wonderful ...

1950s VACATION PLACE. This cabin housed many memories from the 1940s and ’50s for Ellen Sue Waigle (click on images to enlarge).

Memories led her back to cabin in the woods

on June 17, 2011

In the late 1940s and early ’50s, my parents ran a sporting goods store in ...

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Old-fashioned romance kept them going strong

on June 9, 2011

The young love evident in the old photograph at right was expressed daily by my ...

1930s

A perfect summer rain brought so much fun

on June 9, 2011

In the small Midwestern town where I grew up during the 1930s, we kids created ...