On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Legacy Of The Land If you are not making many mistakes, you are not being very creative. Now, that is a stinging indictment…to the reader, whomever that is, and from the writer…whomever that was. ...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek This Wasn’t Your Grandma’s Thanksgiving Turkey When Thanksgiving rolls around and families gather to enjoy traditional meals and each other’s company, conversations often tilt to fond recollections about turkeys, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. ...
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On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Speedy’s Lost & Found The Chronicles of a Footloose Forester are true stories about a gadabout adventurer who, for lack of steady employment of his choosing at a time or in a place...
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The Legacy Untold Is Like A Book Unread By Tom Cormier and Dick Pellek You and I will leave a legacy whether we want to, or not. Everyone who passed on has already left theirs. Some are rich in history and personal accomplishments; and others are obscure or even unknown....
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On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek From Cabo Verde To Coraopolis By no means has the Footloose Forester been designated to be the family historian, thus his chronicles about family members have been spotty and more happenstance than deliberate and planned. ...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Making Marmalade At three o’clock the Bengal Tiger noticed that the wild grapes in the vacant lot next door were fully ripe and ready for harvest. By four o’clock, or maybe 4:15, those grapes were...
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On the road...again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek This Was Home For More Than 55 Years A picture can prompt 10,000 words this photo was rejected for inclusion in a book of memoirs because of presumed copyright law violation At first glance, the...
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In a Debate, Make Distinctions About Opinions, Evidence, Data, Facts and Proof [RE-PRINTED FROM A CAREER DAY HANDOUT] West Allegheny Senior High School, Imperial, Pennsylvania Whether talking about politics, the state of the American economy, or global warming, it is imperative that we distinguish between our personal opinions and the...
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On the road...again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Dolie and Her Adventures There is no getting around the fact that the pets in the life of the Footloose Forester provided thousands of pleasant memories. Some people say that you can love a...
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On the road...again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek An Old Photo From Home Ask who? what? where? when? why? and how? ...and a story starts to develop The photo above was put into the hands of the Footloose Forester only a couple of...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Whiskey Creek Brush Camp: Getting Around Idaho Part III Weekends were always different. As a practicing Catholic, the Footloose Forester tried to keep his obligation to attend Mass on Sunday. In order to...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Whiskey Creek Brush Camp and Charlie Kidder Idaho Part II The memory of Charlie Kidder has been in the back of his mind for these many decades; and now it the time to tell...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Whiskey Creek Brush Camp Idaho Part I Footloose Forester considered it a privilege and an opportunity to explore as a hitch-hiker. So, there was little hesitation as he turned his eyes north and began his...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek C is Cape Verde A three-year sojourn to the windblown islands of Cape Verde came shortly after a 20-word telegram of a job offer was accepted by telephone,...
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On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Teak is Still Exotic in Central America As a graduate student at the University of Florida, the Footloose Forester chose to declare a major in tropical forestry. To be a credible tropical forester, that...
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Hints About How Google Earth Brings The World To Your Computer (E-Mail Notes To A Friend) By DikDik Pellek Dear John, On the stimulus of a single beer, I am entering into an ethereal high. So, let me proceed.... Google Earth is so powerful that I have been able to revisit...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Z is for Zambia The Footloose Forester spent too much time in offices and not enough time in the field to have Zambia stand out in his reverie of African adventures. The large and...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Ancient history meant too many things about too many places when Footloose Forester was a child. He only knew that it was complicated and that people who studied such things didn’t know the complete story. So...
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On the road …again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek California A Memorable Survey in the Sierra Nevadas When he worked for Cal-Pacific Forest Consultants in the early 1960s, the Footloose Forester held a position that might be described as a Junior Forester, a...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Hitchhiker Years before he would call himself the Footloose Forester , a restless boy who liked to be on the road, again…and again…and again, often saw places near home by hitchhiking there. His parents did...
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