American Legacies Organization, Inc.

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.

Mothers Switch

From Franklin Wike

Letters from March 2004

USS Comfort

From Thomas Dwayne Atkins

I served on USS Comfort AH6 at the time of the suicide plane hit.

I was EM/2c at the time of my departure from the ship.

There is one other member of my group that I am in touch with by e mail and and have visited at his home in Oregon.

**Contributed** by: Author Unknown

One of my bygone recollections,
As I recall the days of yore
Is the little house, behind the house,
With the crescent over the door.
'Twas a place to sit and ponder
With your head bowed down low;
Knowing that you wouldn't be there,
If you didn't have to go.

Information provided by: The Navy Historical Center

During the 1920s, several World War I "Bird" type minesweepers (AM) were assigned the mission of caring for the Navy's numerous seaplanes. They retained their AM series hull numbers for many years, but in January 1936 nine "Bird-Boats" were redesignated Small Seaplane Tenders and given new hull numbers ranging from AVP-1 through AVP-9.