Did you ever have a place you thought was magical during your childhood?
Bob talks about his childhood home in Lockleys, a suburb of Adelaide
Margaret tells the tale of her first day at school and everything seemed better after that... Copied from St Giles Secondary School Occasional Papers
Annette talks about her sister. Annette is the youngest in the photo.
This is my cat Kia. He had many names over the years so that may be why he never came to us when we called to him....or he could have just been acting like a typical cat and coming when they wanted to. Either way, he's eating out of his food...
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Quick Stroll Around Four States It was not a stroll around the block…it was a circular promenade at the perimeters of four states. At Four Corners, the intersection point of Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New...
Callie Lynch was my maternal great grandmother who lived her entire life in the same community in central Virginia where she died in 1949. She was a mother and homemaker and had a husband who adored her. They had four sons and three daughters. My memory of her is how thin...
Bill talks about playing card games and table tennis during his school years. And tells us how sailing became one of his loves.
Jill talks about her childhood home in Clare, South Australia.
The first school Margaret attended was St Giles Infants School in Lincoln, Great Britain in the 1930s. Margaret recalls her first school and shows how times were different then.
The war was over by the time I got there. Since I could speak the Polish language fluently and could read and write it, I did get to work as an interpreter for a while. During the Nuremberg trials, for instance, when they had somebody testify at the trials who was...
My name is Bernie Jackson. I was born May 20th of 1928. I'm talking about my five brothers. They were the big heroes. I was talking with my brother-in-law, who is 91 years old now. We were talking at the kitchen table at my brother's house. He was on his way...
Who was the first person to be nominated to be president of the United States? George Washington didn't really want it. This person spent quite a bit of time at Thomas Jefferson's house before that, when they were setting up the Government. (From an observer: "Was this person Polish?") He saved...
We were all subject to re-call for 20 years. So when I got out in 1949, the Korean war started. So they re-called me and gave me three days to report to active duty to Fort Knox, Kentucky. And I didn't do it. What I did, I went and joined the...
My younger kid sister, she happened to go to nursing school here in Columbus. My wife was in the same nursing class, and my brother's wife was in the same grade at the old St. Francis Hospital here in town. So when I was in the army I would call my...
Joyce talks about her early school days in Peterborough, South Australia towards the end of WWII.
Annette talks about her childhood home.
Annette Lorenz shares her experiences living at in the outback at Watson, South Australia as a 16 year old bide in 1967. Click on blue link and then look at the sattelite view to see how bleak this is!!
Alice talks about her early schooldays in Laura, South Australia.
My favourite room as told by Alice Domagalski to the Campbelltown Library Story Circle.
