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14. Moody Years
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In 1938, John LaRue and I left New Jersey in John’s Model A Ford Sedan for the trip to Chicago. This was before the Pennsylvania Turnpike was built. The…
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13. Gardens, Snakes and Skunks
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During our elementary and high school days, we boys had many chores which kept us busy tending the large gardens we had to keep hoed and weeded. We had two…
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12. Stephen and Bees
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Around 1934, a swarm of bees landed in a cherry tree along a fence near the barn. I decided that I would try keeping the bees and so put them…
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11. More Childhood High Jinks
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One of the men I remember in elementary school is Mike Meinsinger. He and his father farmed the farm adjacent to the school. This is one of the farms…
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Braised New Potatoes
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This is a favorite spring recipe when I get the first new potatoes from my garden. The result is a mouthful as creamy as a mashed potato, but with the…
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10. School Days
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I remember my first day of school. It was a one room school taught by one teacher, Miss Ruth Kuglar. [1] Today that school is a home. We walked…
My Pi Hole
… Life is short, eat more pie …
