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Some things about my parents' and grandparents' life and character turn up, along with humorous and sentimental anecdotes about life in a small town, Naperville.

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Full description: Being the recollections of a life of enforced and sometimes enjoyed travel with special emphasis of the author's developing emotional relationship with her husband, her three children and finally a first grandchild.

Paper description Black Civil Rights. The author describes herself as liberal and born southerner (MD & VA) attending a party at Greenbrier Hotel, West Virginia, in 1967. The speaker at the event, Whitney Young (Executive Director of the National Urban League), asked her to dance and so her husband asked Young's wife to dance. Whitney Young struck her like boys she knew growing up: gentle, mannerly and outgoing. They have a long conversation, sharing stories of their lives and history pertinent to civil...

Paper description Fiction, Romance: The author's story follows the life of Hope Sterling, as told by her Aunt Sarah. The story traces Hope's early years in a promising marriage that slowly disintegrates following numerous moves, her husband's poor career choices, subsequent disability, and the influence of alcohol. However, Hope manages to pull herself together, reunite with her adopted children and their new families and to find a new life as a caregiver for an invalid and the lover of her charge's...

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Lincoln. This leads into the question of whether presidential candidates should pass health exams to run. The second half of the paper analyzes in depth political writings of contemporary authors: T.H. White, Alvin Toffler, Charles Panati, and Wilbur Cross/John Moses. The author recognizes freedom of choice and opportunity as the key to America's continued success.

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The author recounts with wit and insight her beginnings in a small Midwest town called Blue Mill through Smith College and a series of writing jobs through World War II, first in Decatur, IL, then NYC, and finally Chicago. Her insightful view of herself and her colleagues is charming. She delights in her continuing work and companionship there.

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A narrative history of a woman born in 1792 in Kentucky. A frontier story focusing on the Illinois territory and the details of life for a family and society putting down roots in American Bottom. Keywords: barn raisings, bees, slaves, Indians, weddings, surveying.

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A meditation on summer-family cabin-loyalty. The author describes cabin history and family love over generations of going to a lake in the remote North Woods, told by a married-into-the-family grandmother, turned cabin-getaway addict. Historical and sociological insights into church, community, family and nature. A description of the book, The Bishop on Vacation (Bishop Anderson) by Dr. John Norcross (1936).

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Memories of childhood in the 1920s when Martha, age 7, was sent to a Catholic boarding school where she was miserable. Her happiest day was to be her First Communion; instead it was a day of unforgettable trauma.

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The history of soap leading up to the author's grandfather Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank, founder of the "Fair Soap" company in 1883. An exploration of the company, its inventions and clever advertisements for household cleaning products. And of her grandfather's life in Chicago at the end of the 1900s.

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The author organized the history of hidden scriptures as a play - describing familial and tribal scenes of ancient Jews, Christians, and Romans. Archeological digs and scrolls found in caves revealed writings that were hidden from war, politics, and religious tensions for 1600 years until presented by the Coptic Museum of Cairo in the 20th century. (Topics: Gnostic Gospels, Dead Sea Scrolls).

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In the manners evolution and revaluation, consideration and kindness are winning out over outworn convention, says Marguerite Remien, etiquette, authority and social observer.

Paper description John Ashley, a ten year old living in Winnetka in 1899, rescues, with the help of his friend, Sam, a pair of mallards from the fire at the house and barn of a local farmer. Uncertain at first that he really wants to keep the ducks, he becomes fond and protective of them, once risking his life in the lake to keep them from being swept away by a strong current The ducks, and later their ducklings, his friendship with Janet who has a pet bear, and Wally B who open up new interests in animals...

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The author's story of her experience as the wife of a pilot (and, to some extent, a grandmother). Her husband had his plane for 15 years. She describes the joy of flying over the farms of the Midwest, over mountains, Caribbean Islands, and deep forests.

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The board of lady managers earned new respect for women by using their executive and organizational skills help make the Chicago World's Fair c 1893 a great success. The feminists and the conservative women sometimes had their differences, but in the end they all pulled together to make the women's exhibitions a testament to their ambitions.