Tag: living
group name: historycanbefun
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December 18, 2006 08:03 PM EST --
We have been made familiar with rural American speech patterns, usually negatively, through television and movies. Classic pictures like . . . more
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July 14, 2008 05:07 PM EDT --
I spied this at a garage sale in Portland, Ore. This 1930s Westinghouse Refrigerator has been painted over many times; it's missing one of the metal interior shelves, and both of the remaining . . . more
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July 04, 2007 07:46 PM EDT --
Well here it is once again
The Fourth of July
We celebrate our freedom
Gained by much pain
For our forefathers gathered
To fight for . . . more
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June 28, 2007 08:25 PM EDT --
I am in the winter of my life, and when I hear the word America I still think
of just one thing. That is freedom. As far back as I can remember,
I heard about America . . . more
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December 03, 2007 06:54 PM EST --
Three teens from LaPorte, IN broke a window at a Center Township fire station, entered the building and decided to take a new, $500,000 fire truck, and a fire support SUV for a joy ride. As the thieves . . . more
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April 11, 2007 10:05 PM EDT --
I have been asked to re post this to a group called Our Ancestors, to those of you that
read and commented on it already thank you very much. For those that haven't and stop
by this is . . . more
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June 11, 2007 05:38 PM EDT --
I wrote this article in January, the second one I put up on Gather. I am reposting it today in
honor of my husband for Father's day, it is long, but he is worth it. To the . . . more
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July 30, 2007 11:42 AM EDT --
Another weekend past. I sure hope it was a good one for all. Now that the fun is over we are left to face reality. What is your reality? What does the work week mean to . . . more
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July 03, 2007 04:18 PM EDT --
A Perfect Patriot to me
Is a person who believes
In their country with it's blessings
Along with faults they see
For there is no perfect place on . . . more
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July 04, 2007 12:42 AM EDT --
Driving in my car today
coming back from shopping
I couldn't help but notice
How this generation
Have porches decorated
each flag upon a pole . . . more
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June 24, 2008 07:39 PM EDT --
We all know what urban myths are but there are rural myths that are also apocryphal in origin. One in particular I have heard . . . more
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July 06, 2008 02:39 PM EDT --
Last week I posed a question to the audience and today I will ask you to entertain a similar one. There is another "rural . . . more
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September 03, 2007 02:11 PM EDT --
Horseradish is often misunderstood and sometimes maligned plant which many cultures use with great relish. A member of the mustard . . . more
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June 06, 2007 02:01 PM EDT --
The war has ended and I am nineteen years old. The war ending means the boys I have been writing to will be returning. At least some of them. V mail is slow. If you got a letter from a friend, it was often . . . more
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July 15, 2008 09:56 AM EDT --
There are some who don't agree with the lifestyle, but there are many, many more who are accepting of those who are 'different'. When you look at the grand . . . more
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June 20, 2007 11:25 AM EDT --
I don't know why I am thinking about this, but in the last few days
I have been wondering about where the heck my time goes. Of
course I know a lot of it is spent . . . more
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June 25, 2007 07:16 PM EDT --
"Nature Break" spotlight - Taughannock Falls State Park, . . . more
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July 19, 2008 08:26 AM EDT --
Play on words not intended with the title of this piece, though you could go there very easily. It just happened to be the first thing that popped into my mind, as . . . more
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December 19, 2006 08:02 PM EST --
Throughout the world cultures have stories of all sorts of creatures. Some are benign, others dangerous, some human in form but larger . . . more
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December 19, 2006 08:05 PM EST --
I can remember my grandfather telling me as a kid while out on one of our forays into the field, about a place named "The Huey or Yuey Rock". The Huey Rock was a place where there . . . more
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