I served on the faculty of the College of William and Mary for a day by Shannon Hollon A few years ago back during…
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We now have a FREE APP Become an Alabama Pioneers Patron A young man who was also an avid golfer found himself with a…
Great Truths About Life That Adults have learned Raising teenagers is like nailing JELLO to a tree. There is always a lot to be…
Join Us Become an Alabama Pioneers Patrons member ----- chat and comment on stories with other Alabama Pioneers Patron members Miscellaneous items from 1872…
(Remembering Joyce Ray Wheeler who was a frequent contributor of wonderful stories to AP. I especially liked this heartwarming one. Joyce Ray Wheeler passed away November…
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Genealogy research requires a lot of time spent on the computer but you know you are spending too much time there if any of…
Our ancestors did not have access to medical treatment like we have today and came up with many home remedies. This is a very…
(Transcribed From Abbeville Advertiser, Abbeville, Alabama, March 17, 1859) The following advertisement appeared in the New York Hearld: "Board and Repose Wanted --- in…
In 1838, Arkansas couples married quickly according to this humorous article Discover, Share, and help us Preserve our lost and forgotten stories. Become an…
Great Truths about Life that children have learned.... No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats. When your mom is mad at…
Searching through records in dark attics and basements and wandering through old cemeteries for a trace of an elusive ancestor can be challenging. A…
HIS LONG WAIT “Grandpa, how old are you?” “I am eighty-seven years old, my little dear.” “Then you were born eighty years before I…
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Click to see how too Become a Patron and read all the Alabama Pioneers stories While transcribing records from old newspapers, I frequently run…
{These health tips from the Perfect Woman 1903 by K. T. Boland have changed over the years. } EARLY TO BED AND EARLY TO RISE Early…
In a New York churchyard: We shall miss thee, mother. (Good job printing neatly done) ----- Here lies Jane Smith, Wife of Thomas Smith,…
THE TRUTH ABOUT SANTA'S REINDEER IS REVEALED According to the Alaskan Department of Fish and game, Both male and female reindeer grow antlers…
FUNNY EPITAPHS When the great judgement day arrives and Joshua Fenton Newton does not emerge from this hole, you will know that someone made…
Household hints from the past: By dipping a new broom in hot salt water before using, will toughen the bristles and make it last…
Graves side by side in an old cemetery in the west. This must have been quite a shoot-out! “Thomas Hart Killed by Frank Teague”…
Funny gravestones: Epitaph of a noted politician: "Here reader, turn your weeping eyes, My fate a useful moral teaches; The hole in which my…
NOTE: This anecdote about storms in Alabama was written in March 1880. Col. E. A. Powell, of Tuscaloosa, read by request, a very entertaining…
FUNNY FRIDAY A MUSICAL BED (From Abbeville Advertiser, Abbeville, Alabama, March 17, 1859) The last novelty from Germany is a musical bed, which receives…
Castor and tea seemed to solve many problems in olden days.... Afternoon of Tea ca. 1901 (Library of Congress) A good complexion never…
In England: This world's a City full of crooked streets, And death the Market-place where all men meets; If Life was Merchandise that men…
"There is no child so bad that he/she can't be used as an income tax deduction." "It's tax time. I know this because I'm…
THE NIGHT I WENT TO THE YACHT CLUB IN A TABLECLOTH by Dorothy Graham Gast I was just ending my Blue Birds reading group…
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