Posts by Pamela
Gone Fishin’
My Own True Love and I are celebrating our tenth wedding anniversary this week! The first out-of-town guests have already arrived. Over the next week there will be food, music, dancing, champagne toasts, laughter, and story telling. Maybe even a little romance. But there won’t be any blog posts. I’ll see you back here at…
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Mrs. Wright’s Guard
One of the recurring themes in accounts of the home front in war—any war—is the formation of a home guard, official or unofficially. It is usually described as being made up of the men and boys who were left behind because they were too old, too damaged or too young to join the army. That…
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Before Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll…
In Meredith Wilson’s 1957 hit musical The Music Man, con man Professor Harold Hill sings out about “ragtime, shameless music” as one of the pending disasters that threaten Riverside if the parents of the town don’t get their collective act together. It’s intended to be funny. In 1957, parents were facing new musical threats that…
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