American Legacies Organization, Inc.

From Polly Mazariegos

Gettysburg PA.

I don’t know what category my stories would fit in. They are true things that have happened to me. They are not in any specific order.

Every time I visit my sister (Shirley) her grandchildren ask me to tell my ghost stories. I had planned to record them, but never got around to it. So I decided to record them with US Legacies. Then they can see them and read them any time they want.

Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Royds Pownall was born in 1887 as second son of of late C. A. W. Pownall, Blackheath.

He married in 1918 with Lucy Louttit Gray (died 1950), youngest daughter of late William Henderson, Aberdeen.

He was educated at Rugby School; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Staff College, Camberley and Imperial Defence College.

Today's inspirations:
August 20, 2002

Author Unknown

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your
arms too full to embrace the present.
-unknown-

Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you
see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on.
- HeartMath Discovery Program, Doc Childre and Sara Paddison, (c)
1998, Planetary

Submitted by Mrs. Lee Thatcher

We’ve all heard that expression so many times, it almost sounds hollow- unless we’re old enough to actually remember “The Good Ole Days.” But what does it mean? Was life in the USA really better fifty or sixty years ago? Eighty years ago?

Exclamations:

"Well knock me down and steal muh teeth!"

"Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit."

"Ahm fixin ta do that"  

Threats:

"I'll slap you so hard, when you wake up, your clothes will be outta style."

"This'll jar your preserves."

"Don't you be makin' me open a can o' whoop-ass on ya!"  

Compliments:

"Cute as a sack full of puppies."

"If things get any better, I may have to hire someone to help me enjoy it."

"Gooder than grits."

By Mrs. Anjum Wasim Dar

Rabbit or Squirrel Dressing
Legacy of Ollie Hamby Fortner

1 rabbit or squirrel, cut up
1 large pan of cornbread
Salt and Pepper to taste
1 Egg

Directions
Place rabbit or squirrel in large boiler, cover with water, boil until tender. Save water rabbit or squirrel was cooked in. Crumble cornbread in large bowl. Stir egg into cornbread.

Submitted by:  Fay Oxley

She is a grown woman now with a husband and children of her own. I remember the Christmas in 1960 when she was ten days old. She came to us when misfortune and worry seemed to follow us. Her father had been injured early in the summer and had been unable to work for many months.

By: Sandy Williams Driver

While searching for something to snack on the other day, I scrounged around in my kitchen cabinets and then opened the refrigerator. With three teenagers in the house, there wasn’t much to choose from inside the softly humming appliance; a small bowl of leftover broccoli, an empty carton of milk, a few eggs, two brown colored apples and one shriveled up orange.

By Sandy Williams Driver

(Disclaimer: At American Legacies we strive to preserve the "old" language and spelling that stories are submitted with. Although they appear wrong to us now, this is from ages gone by.)