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With a New Year just beginning, it is a good time to think about resolutions to improve yourself--the typical vow to lose weight, clean out ...

Thinking about the Sears & Roebuck catalogue seems especially relevant during the holiday season.  We did not have Black Friday sales to...

William Allen White's Typewriter       For many years, my husband and I have wanted to tour the William Allen White home, and when we we...

When I was a child, we always had a freshly cut tree, usually bought at the grocery store.  I still cherish memories of decorating the famil...

 I often look to history for guidance in solving modern problems, wisdom ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Edward R. Murrow to Socrates and ma...

I understand this cemetery is better maintained now. Some time ago I wrote a post about neglected cemeteries and the terrible disrespect sho...

  One bookcase of many in our home. "Hey, kids! It's your old buddy Steve King telling you that if they ban a book in your school ...

 Do you remember these Library Cards?  I often buy old books, and this particular former library book looked like new.  When I opened it I u...

Election Ballot from the Peoples' Party Era  In the previous 3 posts, I have shared the actions of past presidents.  Now, with some Amer...

       In his Inaugural Address, President Ronald Reagan spoke of the importance of the orderly transfer of authority as called for in our C...

       Imagine the challenge Abraham Lincoln faced.  He was elected in November of 1860. but before he could take office seven Southern Stat...

      With Election Day drawing closer, I thought it might be interesting to explore what some of our past Presidents had to say.  It seems ...

A Sod School House  My great grandmother, Susan Beck, was the first country schoolteacher in the community where I grew up.  She had taught ...

Memorial to W.W. I Soldiers  My husband and I graduated from college during Viet Nam.  We were about to retire when nine-eleven shocked Amer...

People's Party Political Cartoon   I strive in this blog to be informational--to share history in particular.  The blog began when I...

A Mother's 100th Birthday with her son  Often, I will stumble across something that I think might make a good blog post, and I will make...

It is an election year, and if you have a television you have probably had enough of being told who to vote for!  I do think it is important...

Do you sometimes feel as if you are being targeted by specific commercials for your age group?  Well, you probably are.  I am in that age ca...

Once, labor kept us fit. This blog was inspired when I read a government Centers for Disease Control & Prevention article which said tha...

When Ladies made their own clothing My Mother was a talented seamstress, and although we went to the department store every Fall and Spring ...

Emy on window sill checking the weather  Sometimes I am not sure whether we train our pets or they train us.  I grew up on a farm with lots ...