The following story is an excerpt from The Heritage of Etta Bend, a story my mother told me about her childhood in northeast Oklahoma. The “I” is my mother, Susie Latty Day. Mom told me this story and I wrote it to be included in The Heritage of Etta Bend in 1989. It was spring, […]
Mar 20, 2024
Grandma Bohannon
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I remember a story my mother told me a long time ago about a sign of spring she and her family always looked forward to when she was a child at Etta Bend. As surely as the new wildflowers popped up, a small figure with wispy gray hair would appear on the road leading to […]
Mar 17, 2024
An Ireland Visit
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A light rain is falling. I’m pretty sure it is raining in Ireland, too, where St. Patrick’s Day originated. While I was there, rain was sometimes hard but never stormy. Each day of my visit to Ireland is a memory I store away and bring out now and then, as I do this morning. Our […]
Mar 8, 2024
Remembering the Good Times
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Last summer, my sister Helen’s three daughters and daughter-in-law drove up from Texas for a visit. What a fun day that was! We reminisced, laughed, delved into genealogy, and caught up with each other’s lives. And, we remembered some special times with Helen. They knew Helen as their mom and I knew her as my […]
Feb 22, 2024
Whose Birthday?
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Today is the birthday of the very first President of the United States, George Washington. Life, for the early colonists, was very different than life today. Writing was done with a quill pen dipped in ink and the light, this early in the morning, was from a sputtering tallow candle. Breakfast, as well as dinner […]
Feb 19, 2024
Who Was Tyler?
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Happy birthday to our first and sixteenth Presidents, although it’s not the birthday of either one. George Washington was born on February 22 and Abraham Lincoln on February 12. So, this is in between both. We hear a lot about these two Presidents but who, I asked myself, was a President that I didn’t hear […]
