How to Preserve. . .

I found a newspaper clipping of a one hundred year old recipe, “How to Preserve a Husband,” between the pages of an old thrift shop cookbook of mine fifteen years ago. I just found it again in one of my old, old computer folders, now it is at least a one hundred and fifteen year… Continue reading How to Preserve. . .

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Chicago, Stock Yards

Tuberculosis – The Public Health, Chicago Medical Society. —The Chicago Eagle, 29 Sep 1906, Sat, Page 3

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Kentucky Abandoned

In Search of Kentucky Abandoned In this episode, the “Kentucky Life” crew searches for “Abandoned Kentucky.” In Muhlenberg County, the ruins of an 1850′s iron furnace are all that remain of Old Airdrie; the town of Beauty, in Martin County, stands on the site of what once was the Hungarian community of Himlerville; photographer Sherman… Continue reading Kentucky Abandoned

Names of U.S. States

UNITED STATES FACTS: Origins of the Names of U.S. States Alabama – Indian for tribal town, later a tribe (Alabamas or Alibamons) of the Creek confederacy. Alaska – Russian version of Aleutian (Eskimo) word, alakshak, for “peninsula,” “great lands,” or “land that is not an island.” Arizona – Spanish version of Pima Indian word for… Continue reading Names of U.S. States

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