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Genre/Form: | Biographies Anecdotes Local history Biography Anecdotes |
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Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Helen Kay Polaski |
ISBN: | 1593373481 9781593373481 |
OCLC Number: | 61247070 |
Description: | xvi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
Contents: | One of the Family, Muskogee, Oklahoma / T. Suzanne Eller -- Town Profile, Muskogee, Oklahoma -- The Twelve-Year Bog, Chatsworth, New Jersey / Geoffrey Girard -- The Elves Under the Stairs, Mannington, West Virginia / E. Dian Moore -- Mama's Birthday, Hereford, Texas / Emmarie Lehnick -- Honest Question, Honest Answer, Rushville, Indiana / David Crane Swarts -- Sisters on Vacation, Largo, Florida / Anna M. Popescu -- As the Wedding March Played, Doniphan, Missouri / Garnet Hunt White -- A Pear in the Sand, Verona, New Jersey / Candy Killion -- Town Profile, Verona, New Jersey -- Grandmother's Imagination, Lancaster, New Hampshire / Patricia Wilson -- The Memory Boxes, Chippewa Lake, Ohio / Kristine Ziemnik -- A Sure Thing, Mannington, West Virginia / LB Brumage -- Threshing Adventures on the Farm, Nova, Ohio / Lucinda Rickett Strine -- Grandma's Roses, Mathis, Texas / David L. Barber -- The Screen House, Carbondale, Pennsylvania / Alice A. Mendelsohn -- The Uninvited Visitor, Doniphan, Missouri / Renie Burghardt -- Town Profile, Doniphan, Missouri -- A Wee Gathering, Santa Fe, Texas / Sharon Cupp Pennington -- The Prayer Wheel, Altus, Arkansas / Lad Moore -- Home on the Lake, Baldwin, Michigan / Kristin Dreyer Kramer -- Then There Were Six, Clyde, North Dakota / Betty Downs -- Wishbone Science, Sun Prairie, Montana / N.V. Bennett -- The Gathering Place, St. Paul, Virginia / Betty R. Koffman -- Hearthstone Halloween, Whigville, Ohio / Mary Helen Straker, (as told by her Aunt Emma) -- Town Profile, Whigville, Ohio -- Christmas at Napoleon, Napoleon, Missouri / Linda Kaullen Perkins -- The Sugar-Cube Cure, Sissonville, West Virginia / Cheryl K. Pierson -- A Recipe for Success, Lawton, Oklahoma / Lisa Ciriello -- Summertime, Asbury Park, New Jersey / Marcia Rudoff -- Dinner at Dora's, Delanco, New Jersey / Margaret A. Frey -- A Southern Family Reunion, Albertville, Alabama / Sandy Williams Driver -- Perfect Pitch, Hendersonville, Tennessee / Lanita Bradley Boyd -- Town Profile, Hendersonville, Tennessee -- Wilbur's Vanishing Act, Butler, Indiana / Michelle Close Mills -- Unfailing Love, Morrilton, Arkansas / Rita Chandler -- The Windswept Prairie, Cheyenne, Wyoming / Roberta Rhodes -- A Jaunt to Aunt Josie's, Ralph Hollow, Tennessee / Mary Ralph Bradley -- The Best Present, Charleston, West Virginia / Lynn R. Hartz -- Where I Belong, Monroe, North Carolina / Kim Peterson -- Buses, Trains, and Taxicabs, Gleed, Washington / Dorothy Read -- Town Profile, Gleed, Washington -- The Wondrous Seashell, Westerville, Ohio / Carol Kehlmeier -- Tennessee Celebrations, Donelson, Tennessee / Elaine Young McGuire -- Apple Butter Day, Higginsville, Missouri / Rachel J. Johnson -- The Crab Feast, Pasadena, Maryland / Ray Weaver -- Cousin Jean, Des Plaines, Illinois / Barbara Brady -- Aunt Clara's Tears, Clyde, North Dakota / Betty Downs -- Farmhouse, Tyler, Minnesota / Gayle Sorensen Stringer -- Town Profile, Tyler, Minnesota -- Summer's Dance, North Stamford, Connecticut / Virginia Rowledge -- Homecoming, Jeddo, Texas / Carol Burnside -- Little Boy Lost, Stamford (Jones County), Texas / Pat Capps Mehaffey -- A Need for Independence, Gleneden Beach, Oregon / Nancy Jackson -- Saturday Night on the Town, Strawberry Point, Iowa / Jacquie McTaggart -- Welcome to the Family, Guthrie, Oklahoma / Al Serradell -- Silvertone Memories, Irwinville, Georgia / Amy M. O'Quinn, as told by her father, Edward McIntyre -- Town Profile, Irwinville, Georgia -- A Little Piano Music, Chelmsford, Massachusetts / Barbara Beaudoin -- Things Money Cannot Buy, Melrose, New Mexico / Joan Clayton -- Clearview Christmas, Clearview, Tennessee / John R. Bradley, as told by Lola Mae Bradley Empson -- Never Say No to Nina, Farmington, Illinois / Trish Ayers -- Homemade Ice Cream at Grandma's, Stillwater, Oklahoma / James E. Tate -- From Grave to Cradle, Glendora, California / Suzanne LaFetra -- Town Profile, Glendora, California -- In Search of a Christmas Tree, Newport, Oregon / Susan G. Sharp-Anderson -- The Visit, Laurel County, Kentucky / Jan Sparkman -- The Bunny of Easters Past, Providence, Utah / Jean Davidson -- Scents of Remembrance, Lockport, New York / Avis A. Townsend -- Watermelon Preserves, Purdin, Missouri / Margaret Anne Wright -- A Few Minutes Ago, Chippewa Lake, Ohio / Kristine Ziemnik -- Dixie Pool, Eros, Louisiana / Rachael Phillips -- Town Profile, Eros, Louisiana -- My Chair, Esopus, New York / Penny Porter -- Swamp Family, Fargo, Georgia / Lucile C. Cason -- Getting Up with the Sun, Protection, Kansas / Kimberly Zweygardt -- The Family Together, Chester, South Carolina / Sam E. Douglas -- The Four O'Clock Ritual, Natchez, Mississippi / Shannon Rule -- The Best Gift of All, Walhalla, North Dakota / Michael L. Harvey -- The Lamp's Still Burning, Bronson, Michigan / Charlene A. Derby, as told by Deborah Lombard. |
Responsibility: | edited by Helen Kay Polaski. |
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