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Plates as Garden Decor

If you do country auctions or flea markets, particularly if you occasionally buy box lots, you may always have on hand a stack or two of unrelated patterned porcelain or stoneware plates. A new use has developed for these pieces no matter if they have chips or cracks and are of different dimensions the plates can make attractive edging for flower gardens. Place them on end, partially buried in the garden soil or mulch.

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Examples of Creativity Provided by a 6th-grade Class During History Tests

1. The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shake-speare. He was born in the 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couple.

Received:  Dear U.S. Legacies,

Currently I am stuck at my ggg-grandparents, George McCauley (McCawley) 1797?-1828 and Catherine Schroyer (Schreyer) 1792-1868.

Contributed by Various Readers

Currently I am stuck at my ggg-grandparents, George McCauley (McCawley) 1797?-1828 and Catherine Schroyer (Schreyer) 1792-1868.

Both were born in Pennsylvania (according to 1880 census returns on two of their sons, Samuel and George Jr.) I cannot find their birth records and so, cannot trace their parents.

First of all I would like to express how much I’m enjoying my work with the Good Old Days column. I’m learning so much and really appreciating all of the participation from everyone in sharing their memories and bits of family history.

Author - Various

Follow-up to WH Howard

From Milton Long

As a follow-up on the article about WH Howard in the February issue of the U. S Legacies, I was able to furnish this picture of WH, which I took of him in the Seigfried line in January 1945. I provided the family with information about our unit and the part WH played in winning the war.

By Polly Mazariegos

Ruthy Markey nee Leaper in 1941 in pool on the Wike farm in Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania

In 1941, when the Wikes moved to the farm in Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania, there was a small cottage in a depression between two hills. There was a garage up on the hill and down the depression was an in ground pool. (see photo of Ruthy Markey nee Leaper).

The first Railway Suspension Bridge connecting the USA and Canada.

1855

March 8, 1855

The locomotive London, at a speed of 8 miles per hour, is the first train to cross the new railway suspension bridge over Niagara Gorge. This bridge is the first suspension bridge in the United States.

1885

CRUMBLY APPLE PIE

Legacy of Lena Bunner

Grandview, Indiana

Mix:

¼ cup sugar

¾ teaspoon cinnamon

1/8 teaspoon salt

4 cups thinly sliced raw apples

Arrange this mixture in an unbaked pie shell.

Blend until crumbly,

¾ cup firmly packed brown sugar

By Norma Sturgeon

There’s a little church where we used to go.

You may recall, it was St. Joe.

Hard Scrabble, was a nickname,

It wasn’t famous, nor held no fame.

Our mom and dad, always faithful and true,

For miles they walked, the best they could do.

With Harold, Richard, Jean, Norma and Linda too,

We went to Church, Fountain Ferry and Zoo.