Tag: americana
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July 29, 2009 06:42 AM EDT --
author: Bill Bryson
This book is a memoir and a history lesson all in one. The last book I'd read by this author was about the history of English - this was very different.
Although we . . .
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March 10, 2009 11:06 AM EDT --
In Shrewsbury Massachusetts, I passed an old house. In front was a strange array of mailboxes.
The first eye level box was labeled: Letters, cards, gifts
The second was about . . .
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March 05, 2007 03:04 PM EST --
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain
It ain't what you don't know . . .
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May 31, 2008 08:14 PM EDT --
I SHOULD NOT BE HERE AND NEITHER SHOULD YOU
By John W. Kropf
I should not be here and neither should you. The odds are against it. Think of the circumstances, the people that had to meet, . . .
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July 04, 2008 04:26 PM EDT --
On this Independence Day we are celebrating our great country and the Americana cuisine it has inspired....
From Yankee Stew and New England Boiled Dinner.... Clam Chowder... . . .
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July 05, 2007 12:09 AM EDT --
For the past 24 years, the Doo Dah Parade has been a tradition in Columbus, Ohio. This is what freedom of speech is all about! People show up with their sense of humor and vent their frustrations with . . .
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July 08, 2007 05:52 PM EDT --
The phrase "roadside America" is synonymous with tacky attractions of all sorts scattered across the country, from giant balls of twine to a museum of squished pennies. But there's . . .
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February 22, 2009 08:27 PM EST --
Dear Folks:
I'd like you to go back in your memories to when you were growing up and riding in the backseat of a 1957 Chevrolet going through those small towns in the America of that time. . . .
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June 12, 2008 09:38 PM EDT --
When I was a boy, although some still say I am I love that line, I was a child prodigy on the piano and also extremely knowledgeable about U.S. History. My passion of interest was the Civil War. Since . . .
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July 20, 2007 11:16 PM EDT --
Hello all! I would like to introduce one of my favorite things [that I collect].
It's my Lone Ranger Trading Cards and I have put them together in a Photo Parade. There . . .
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August 05, 2007 04:52 AM EDT --
Good morning Gatherdom. Actually 3:29am doesn't exactly portray a new dawn, so once I finish this article, I am taking my cooling glass of ice spring water and returning to bed. Are we . . .
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September 08, 2007 08:46 PM EDT --
SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE
By John Whitworth Kropf
I never knew my grandfather.
John Whitworth enlisted to serve his country in the Great War but before . . .
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October 03, 2006 08:19 AM EDT --
I should have jumped from the bed at the smell of bacon. I usually did. The delay was due to my sleepless night waiting up for daddy. Regardless, my stomach now screamed louder than my . . .
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August 25, 2007 11:30 PM EDT --
When I was young, one of my earliest memories was of walking across Grandpa Norman's lots to watch "Where The Action Is" at our friend Tena's house. (The bizarre . . .
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December 01, 2007 11:31 AM EST --
About a year ago I found this wonderful image online & thought it would be a
good practice project to hone & maintain my painting skills.
At that time, I had written . . .
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September 09, 2007 09:07 PM EDT --
CHAPTER 1
MY GRANDFATHER WAS A PIONEER MOTORIST AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
It is important to have just the right amount of sitting quietly at home
and just the right amount of adventure.
--Thorton Wilder . . .
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April 28, 2006 12:08 AM EDT --
I slowly creep from between warm sheets
And pull my boots upon small feet,
I think again of my warm bed,
Put on my coat, place hat on head.
I step into the frosty night,
My heart is thumping . . .
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April 28, 2008 04:35 PM EDT --
The prom is an American right of passage. It's decadent, yet innocent. It's old-fashioned, yet sophisticated. It's oddly familiar, yet uniquely momentous. The prom is the . . .
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February 02, 2008 02:42 AM EST --
When Erin and I traveled to Hawai'i last September, we spent several days at the home of my cousin Laura McHugh and her husband John, in Mililani, northwest of Honolulu. I didn't write about it . . .
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May 16, 2007 08:39 PM EDT --
I discovered my husband at a garage sale, wedged between a stack of old books and a crate piled high with used Tupperware®. His eyes caught mine as he burped the plastic storage containers, one by . . .
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