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Lessons Learned from my Elders

Shari Burnum

You Can Do Anything If You Work Hard Enough. My father grew up in a family who believed that accomplishment was tied to working hard and he carried this value into raising me. Although education was stressed in our family, the primary driver for accomplishment was effort. Not only would he...

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Graduate Studies at Champaign-Urbana, Illinois 1960-1965

Elva Michal

Keith received approval to enter graduate studies at the University of Illnois! It really was going to happen! We borrowed a farm truck from my brother, Richard Tice, and loaded it full with our belongings. It reminded me of 'Ma and Pa Kettle" - even complete with a washtub...

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Kansas University (KU) at Lawrence, Kansas 1959-1960

Elva Michal

Before we were married, Keith and I shared with each other our personal dreams for our lives. Keith wanted to study brain and central nervous system function and I wanted to pursue music (especially piano music) and be able to share it with others to enrich their lives. The time had...

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Virtual Trekking In Google Earth

Dick Pellek

On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Virtual Trekking With Google Earth When Google, Inc. changed their policy in December of 2015 in regard to the open use of satellite photos within their Google Earth computer program, it opened the floodgates for...

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Hampton, Virginia 1956-1959

Elva Michal

Six weeks after our wedding, the elementary and high schools at Waldo, Kansas were dismissed for the summer. It had been a busy time with Solo and Ensemble Music Contest, finishing the paper drives in order to purchase new band uniforms, performing the 'Pomp and Circumstance' music for high school graduation...

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Twenty-Nine Crosses and One Dead Cow

Millard Don Carriker

This is a greatly expanded chronicle of a road trip I took several years ago in a disreputable-looking old Oldsmobile. It is probably the lengthiest story I have published on Legacy Stories. It was simply such a grand, adventurous, "fun" trip for me that I want to preserve it in its...

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Breaking and Entering: A Story of Father-Son Bonding

Nathaniel Dunn

As a child my family, like most American families at the time, would take a road trip somewhere during our vacation, stopping in various places along the way. This time my parents took my sister and myself to Canada, with the obligatory stop at Mount Rushmore along the way. Once in...

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Pets, Weeds, and Invasive Plants

Dick Pellek

Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujuba Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Pets, Weeds, and Invasive Plants There are so many ways to think about the animals and plants of this earth that it becomes haltingly tentative for anyone to embark on a...

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A Birthday to Remember

Millard Don Carriker

The 21 st birthday of a man’s oldest son begs for significant celebration. This story relates how my oldest son and I celbrated his "coming of age" birthday. He didn’t enjoy flying and water sports had never appealed to him, so in a magnificent display of non sequitur thinking I decided...

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Chemistry Is Hard

Dick Pellek

Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujuba Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Chemistry Is Hard The urge to air out old memories often reaches a level high enough to prompt another self-punishing chronicle by the Footloose Forester . This one might belong in...

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In and Under Flying Things

Dick Pellek

On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek In and Under Flying Things Re-printed from Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester Memoirs might flow as narrative accounts to those who compose them, or be read as non-fiction histories by those who...

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Charley and Virginia Twitchell

Salem Utah Heritage

To start 2016 off we’d like to spotlight Charley and Virginia Twitchell. Charley was born April 30, 1927 in Delta, Utah to Joshua Lafayette and Annis Bea Snider Twitchell. He is the fifth child of six children; two girls and four boys. They were living in Torrey, Utah in 1934 when...

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What's the Address of the Devil's Tower?

Dick Pellek

On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek What’s the Address of the Devil’s Tower? Most young adults these days know enough about GPS technology to find a street address in a strange city by just looking it up on a smartphone, an...

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Ghosts of Christmas Past

Millard Don Carriker

Whether my memory matches reality or is tainted by the slings and arrows of a long, rough-roaded lifetime, I do not have a lot of “good” memories of childhood Christmases. I recollect a rather peculiar one and I painfully remember an extremely stressful one, both of which are stories already on...

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Guns Take A Toll

Dick Pellek

Guns Take Their Toll Posted by Dick Pellek in Tragedy On the road again..! Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujuba Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Guns Take Their Toll In these times of a national subconscious fear about the next mass shooting, we all...

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Oskie Wow Wow, Burma Shave, and Other Artifacts

Millard Don Carriker

While driving my jaunty Explorer Sportrac, which my wife has named “Sassy Red,” to the dealer some thirty miles away for its scheduled maintenance, I passed some long-familiar scenes. My mind began drifting, conjuring an image of life as it was sixty to seventy years ago. God, how I long for...

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Herman Hendrik (Henry or Hank) Thiessens

Hermannus Thiessens Family Association (HTFA)

Herman Hendrik Thiessens was born January 1, 1919 at 1051 Downington Avenue in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was the second son born to Herman Thiessens and Henderika Folkers. He was given an LDS Blessing May 2, 1920 by LeGrande Richards at Sugar House Ward, Granite Stake. Five years later, the...

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Leola Rae Dalley Hatch

Salem Utah Heritage

Leola Rae Dalley Hatch just celebrated her 90th birthday with 93 people. She was born October 3, 1925 in Minersville, Utah in her grandparent's home. Her parents, Leland and Zola Dalley, lived in Summit which is north of Cedar City. She is the oldest of five childredn; she had three brothers...

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Adventures in Banking

Dick Pellek

On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Adventures In Banking Among the many small decisions one makes when mapping out their life, some of them are truly inconsequential but others develop into long-lasting, practical choices. A person may wish to drive a...

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TDY

Dick Pellek

On the road…again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek TDY Getting out of the house once in a while is a desire that resembles an itch. Most people get that itch to travel on occasion, and soldiers confined to a military bases are no different. With...

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