Author: jz
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15. Alaska!
In August of 1942 I graduated from Moody Bible Institute. I had decided that the place for me in the Lord’s work would be in Alaska. I knew that…
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When you are the product
I came across this when shredding papers. We all get the emails from the Nigerian Prince, but one Mr Olivier Denis did me the courtesy of sending me a long…
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Pierogi for One
I had lots of occasion to sit and visit with Mom Zdepski. I heard lots of stories about New York and life on the farm, exhausting most of my recollections…
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14. Moody Years
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
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
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
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
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
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…
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9. Pop’s Memories of Ukraine
I think now is the appropriate time to tell some of the things Pop told that happened in the Ukraine when he was growing up. He told us how…