Ann was beautiful, with long, auburn hair and fair skin. She was kind-hearted, a soft whisper of a pioneer woman, like her name. She was 16 in 1829 when she traveled from Kentucky with her parents, James and Mary Ann Rutledge, and her nine siblings, to the open prairie of ...
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Beginnings often hold the promise of good things. When my grandparents were married in 1927, it was a time of new hope for both of them. My grandfather had finally regained his health after suffering from Tuberculosis brought on by weakened lungs after he contracted influenza during the 1918 pandemic. ...
Read More »Partaking Of All God’s Words
Dessert has always been a favorite in my family. My great grandfather was known to sit down and eat most of a pie by himself. My favorite cookie has always been sugar, because my grandmother made the best. She would sit a plate of fresh baked cookies on the table ...
Read More »The Consuming Fire of Greed
The Triangle Shirtwaist Company in Manhattan produced women’s shirtwaists. The fitted, long-sleeved blouses with high necklines worn by women with their long skirts every day in the early 1900’s. Most of the company’s workers were teenage girls and young women who had immigrated to America with their families, dreaming of ...
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Canning before the long winter was once a part of life for most homemakers in America. My grandmother was one of those homemakers, living with my grandfather and her two little boys on a farm in northwest Indiana. There, she had a large garden in the side yard, along with ...
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