American Legacies Organization, Inc.

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I wrote "A Mother's Prayer" as a special request when a young couple approached me in an all night restaurant and asked me for something that would reflect the feelings of a woman as she was about to give birth to her first child.

Imagine a young boy born as WWII ended, but growing up without having a father around. While it is not uncommon in the 21st century for many children to grow up in single parent families or not having both parents around, it was extremely rare in the 1940’s.

Now picture that young boy moving around so much, that he attended more schools then he did grades. Moving around so much, was a result of being raised by foster parents and other relatives, plus in state facility for “young boys” where he had to physically fight, in order to protect himself.

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June. Since they were starting to smell, however, brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

By Stephen Saalman

A rich silver mine has recently come to light in Harrison Township, Spencer County, IN. The deposit of ore is said to occupy an extensive belt, beginning in Martin County and running southeast into Dubois, the northern part of Spencer, Perry and on into Crawford County.

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 UPDATED: 3/31/25

We are currently in the process of updating our website, so that we will be able to utilize a  BOOK type display containing the  memories and other information, for individuals that have an abundant amount of information stored with us about their lives.

Ohio River

Buzzard Roost, Indiana

Stephen Saalman

There is an ancient Indian spiral petroglyph on the Indiana side along the river at Buzzard Roost. The petroglyph is in the form of a spiral snake carved into stone, and river floods have eroded some of it over the hundreds and possibly thousands of years since it was carved.

Stephen Saalman

Perry County, Indiana

On River Rd. (soon to be reopened) between Tell City and Cannelton was the location of "Fulton's Mine," said to be the first used in Indiana, and in 1811, to have furnished coal to the first steam boat on the Ohio River, the "New Orleans," which was owned by Robert Fulton and piloted by Nicholas Roosevelt. This area has great cliffs of massive sandstone, which belittle the narrow river valley below.

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Rangers led the way in the D-Day landings 80 years ago

Among the 150,000 soldiers who landed on and fought across the hostile beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, were 1,000 members of a new, specially trained unit – the U.S. Army Rangers.