Tag: history
member name: Ruth MacGill
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October 12, 2007 04:24 PM EDT --
Blowing in the Wind at the Horse Camp!
My new computer is set up so that the first page clues me in to what month and day it is, and the local weather conditions. The trouble is it gives me the weather . . . more
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February 27, 2008 11:35 AM EST --
Decisions, Decisions!
I'm off to a good start this morning. I took my pills, fed Chatterbox, my sick old female cat, cleaned the cat boxes, filled my 7-day pill boxes - one for morning pills and . . . more
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December 06, 2006 12:33 AM EST --
(This is a repeat posting of an article I deleted.)
I was born in 1922 and my family had a farm in Bethel, Connecticut by the time of the ‘Crash of ‘29’. Some of my father’s . . . more
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November 28, 2006 07:29 AM EST --
Not Rootless After All
My father bought a farm in southern Connecticut in 1928 when I was six years old. and he sold it in 1941. My childhood was spent on that farm and in retrospect it seems . . . more
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April 22, 2007 09:27 AM EDT --
Eighth Grade Final Exam, Salina, Kansas, 1895 – Reposted as a Prelude
Remember when grandparents said that they only had an eighth grade education? Well, check this out. Could any of us have passed . . . more
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May 04, 2008 10:56 AM EDT --
What Does 'Going Back to Basics' Mean to You?
A friend told me he looks upon going back to basics as living within one's means - no charging. That's right of course, but it is only . . . more
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July 12, 2008 12:31 PM EDT --
Every once in a while in conversation about the government someone will correct me when I call the USA a democracy. "No", they say, "this country is not a democracy, it is a republic!" . . . more
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December 06, 2006 08:39 PM EST --
Flaggie’s Letter to His Mother After the Great Chicago Fire Oct. 8, 1871
(edited and reposted)
While rummaging in boxes for pictures, I ran across a copy of a letter written in 1871 by . . . more
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November 23, 2007 03:20 PM EST --
Why Black Friday?
On TV today, the Friday after Thanksgiving, the talk is all about today being Black Friday. I thought Black Friday was a reference to the Wall Street Crash of ’29. I couldn’t . . . more
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July 06, 2008 10:34 AM EDT --
Yesterday I had plenty of time to write an article for Gather, but the topics I thought of all need a lot of research, and my brain refused to work. So I tried TV, but after watching two pretty good old . . . more
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April 01, 2007 02:08 AM EDT --
Dead Man’s Hole
You can unearth some strange stories from the early years in the mountainous backcountry of San Diego County, but this is one of the strangest. If you travel up into the . . . more
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December 19, 2007 02:11 PM EST --
They Don't (often) Write Good Songs Like They Used To
I decided to write this article because I remember a couple of ditties from my childhood that became overnight sensations when the main means . . . more
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March 22, 2008 08:36 PM EDT --
What a Watcher on the Mountain Might Have Seen
My new icon that you can see at the left of this page inspires me. It is a view of a graceful ocotillo bush in bloom with the Laguna Mountains looming . . . more
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June 28, 2008 12:55 PM EDT --
It is curious little items like this that make TV channel surfing interesting. Recently I surfed onto a program about the 'Little Ice Age", an event that lowered and fluctuated the temperature . . . more
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July 07, 2008 01:45 PM EDT --
That's what my mother kept telling me back in the depression years when I was a little girl. And she meant it! So I would sit there alone at her oval mahogany dining-room table staring at the two . . . more
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February 20, 2007 08:46 AM EST --
Hatfield the Rainmaker Did It In Campo
It happened 91 years and about a month ago before this ano domini 2007. There were a series of rainstorms during January, 1916 in San Diego County that . . . more
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September 18, 2007 02:43 PM EDT --
One Man’s Dream of Living Off the Grid
Yesterday my daughter Jane and I took a ride to a place that made us feel we were going back in time. We went to visit Dexter, a retired electrician, . . . more
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June 15, 2008 09:21 PM EDT --
This is not a topic that lends itself to being explained in the 850 words or less, which is what I strive for. But as a subject that concerns a fundamental right of all human beings, it should be considered . . . more
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February 19, 2008 09:44 AM EST --
This is written in honor of Black History Month.
During the American Civil War, settlers pushed westward in spite of the lack of military protection. Such tribes as the Lakota in the northern plains, . . . more
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December 09, 2006 04:33 PM EST --
Progress Has Been Made in the Last Three Hundred Years.
After fooling around on this keyboard since 5AM this morning, at 11 AM I developed a headache, and thought I would just lie down for a . . . more
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