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7 years ago

Jerome wrote a post "Starting over" on the site Other lives, other times...

How Do we begin

we begin?

7 years ago

Jerome wrote a post "Constructs and Unintended Consequences" on the site Other lives, other times...

MEMORY CONSTRUCTS AND UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

There existed a box of high school memorabilia, I had long since forgotten, put away in my parent’s attic when I went into the Navy.

I had […]

8 years ago

J G Coleman likes their own blog post, Making The Wine

8 years ago

Jerome wrote a post "Just A Summer Fling? (My Grandparents Romance Upsets the Tranquility of Harvard Yard)" on the site Other lives, other times...

8 years ago

Jerome wrote a post "Justine and The Depression ("By noon everyday, I was set to quit.")" on the site Other lives, other times...

8 years ago

Jerome posted an update

Maybe we should start a group or forum as version of Letterman’s stupid pet tricks. We could call it ‘Adventures in Absurdity in the Military.’ Everyone must have one of those.@mike-a

8 years ago

Jerome wrote a post ""OH! DO get on with it!" John brings an Englishism to America in the 1950's" on the site Other lives, other times...

8 years ago

warfield wrote a post "The Warfields" on the site In My Life....

THE WARFIELDS

FLORENCE MACNAUGHTON

“ ‘Twas the 18th of April in ‘75/Hardly a man is now alive/Who remembers that famou date and year/The midnight ride of Paul Revere.” So Grandmother Florence […]

8 years ago

warfield wrote a post "New Entry" on the site In My Life....

8 years ago

Jerome wrote a post "test back end: Grandfather's Lament" on the site Other lives, other times...

In 1932 Harvard Class of 1907 celebrated twenty-five years as graduates or, in my Grandfather’s case, almost a graduate. Here is what my Grandfather wrote of his life in those intervening years:

8 years ago

warfield wrote a post "New Entry" on the site In My Life....

LITZES

Johann Philip Litz, born in Germany around 1709, the second Litz to bring his family to America, sailed from Rotterdam on the ship “Patience.” Arriving in Philadelphia September 9, 1751, with his […]

8 years ago

J G Coleman wrote a post "New Entry" on the site Afar and Asunder

Journey by farm tractor and caravan from London to Sydney in 1953-54

This Memoir is the story of the journey I, my husband Tom and another couple, Joan and Rod Johnson, took in 1953 to 1954 overland […]

8 years ago

Jerome wrote a post "1804 Eliza Riley -- All That's Left Is a Piece of a Dress and a Letter" on the site Other lives, other times...

Eliza Riley was born May 26, 1804. She is my great great great grandmother. When she was a young girl she wore a dress of a dark blue material.

I have a piece of that dress.

As the Civil War came to an […]

8 years ago

Jerome wrote a post "Life: Exiled to The Annex" on the site Trinity School Class of 1961

On Inauguration Day for Dwight Eisenhower, Mrs. Oexle had her forth grade students stand at attention and face the flag on top of Joan of Arc public high school, a block away, while the presidential oath was […]

8 years ago

Jerome wrote a post "Jogging Memories with Memory (Jerome and Justine 'on the road' in New Jersey)" on the site Other lives, other times...

In the final months of her life I used to take my mother, Justine, driving in the countryside around their home in rural New Jersey. This would give, my father a bit of respite from his duties as home […]

9 years ago

warfield wrote a post "New Entry" on the site In My Life....

9 years ago

Jerome wrote a post "Harriett Risley Foote Letters From Abroad to Her Parents, et al Aug. 23, 1889-- Aug July 28,1990" on the site Other lives, other times...

84 Rue D’Assas,

June 10, 1890

My darling Father & Mother,

Here I am safe and well in this great and beautiful city. I reached here last evening about 6.45. One of the teachers from this school came to […]

9 years ago

Jerome wrote a post ""My Bossa Nova Summer" 1962 Police bust at 'Fugs' concert in G. Village" on the site Other lives, other times...

In 1962 protest was not high on anyone’s agenda. Certainly The civil rights protests were only noted by their inconspicuousness on the Village campus of NYU except to the left wing leftover from the 1930’s. […]