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THINGS I LEARNED WITH AGE Girl eating ice cream ca. 1920s (Library of Congress) The older I get, the fewer things seem worth waiting…
The Five Cent Store by Inez McCollum I'm not sure whether I was fourteen or fifteen when I started working on Saturday's at the…
Some Rules for children's behavior in 1937..... Always greet the members of your family when you enter and always bid them goodbye when you…
Trains by Inez McCollum I grew up across the street from a railroad track. When we had guests and a train would pass by…
Oh, What Games We Played by Jean Butterworth Fall is here! When the first little bit of cool air hit my face early one…
A delicate paper revealed the truth by Lawanna McLeod Walthall Throughout our McLeod family history, we were told that our Grandfather that came from…
I served on the faculty of the College of William and Mary for a day by Shannon Hollon A few years ago back during…
The “Old Tooth Pullers” by Hylott L. Armstrong, Jr. Sometime in the 1920’s my Grandfather, William Henry (“Bill Henry”) Crawford, moved from Edgewater (a…
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