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Stories in The Dirty Thirties
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 A small town revisited, if only in memory.
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 Even if the shoe fits, you don't have to wear it all the time.
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 My mother was quite a unique woman. No, I guess the right words to describe her would be "knowledgeable" ...
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 I'm reminded daily of my first school because a fading photo of it hangs on my study wall. It shows my ...
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 As a 6-year-old living in Chicago in 1926, I was happy to receive an invitation to drive with my aunt ...
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Iwas brought up during the Depression years, when it was normal for housewives to turn the frayed collars ...
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 In the late 1930s, our family moved from Los Angeles to a small desert valley straddling the California-Nevada ...
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 Payback was a pleasure for a slightly obsessive seamstress mother of five daughters.
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In September 1938, I enrolled in Bethel Seminary in St. Paul, Minn. Soon thereafter, a fellow enrollee ...
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You can't open your mail these days without finding a letter from somebody who wants you to get one of ...
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 In the past, I had done business with the man who said to me, out of the blue, "Was your dad Steve Blankenship?" ...
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 "You won't like it," my mother said. I was 13, fresh out of the eighth grade, and ready to start my first ...
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 Nestled beside the faded photographs and family mementos sits an unexpected remembrance
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A family's seeds of kindness reaped a rich return.
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 A son learns a lesson from his father.
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