tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69718032024-03-07T00:58:32.741-06:00<em>Suppose you decide to retire. Where to live - Florida, Arizona? What if you, now a senior citizen, returned (to Indiana after 40 years in California, North Carolina, Texas and New Jersey) to live in the town where you grew up?</em>Syc2http://www.blogger.com/profile/00106108328413897875noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6971803.post-14387456208989923062016-12-25T05:49:00.000-06:002016-12-25T05:49:19.210-06:00

These are my thoughts - unfortunately, someone else said them first. I won't say who but he is a genius. &nbsp; A son is home from college for the holidays. He actually tried to convince us last night that Pot was good for you.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; "I think what you're trying to say it is less bad for you than other recreational drugs."&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; "Do

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I had not heard of NASA's Michelle Thaller until this week. (revised to remove typos) I turned on CSPAN Sunday morning in 2015 in the middle of a Discussion on Science Skeptics. It was a rerun from earlier in the year. A member of the audience addressed the panel. He related his experience with people who sought out medical science when a family member had spinal meningitis but would not

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Cloudless steel gray sky,Naked tree limbs bend with the wind -Lead edge of spring: PEEPS.

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1964 Mexico

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1458 Chestnut is now an empty lot now.&nbsp;&nbsp; We've forgotten a lot about living at 1458 Chestnut. This January 2007 exchange of emails is some of what we remember:from John to BOB, Billdate Jan 9 I don't know why, but when they tear down a building that was part ofyour life, it seems a little sad. This time it was 1458 Chestnut.East Chestnut Street was an o.k. neighborhood when we lived

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jdmcfall100

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It doesn't seem that long ago when Sandy Hartman was cruising Wabash Avenue in a new white Buick Special.Or when I escorted Susie Hines to a formal dance.by jdmcfall100 click on the picture to enlargebut that new Buick is a '54 and, the Harvest Moon Dance of 1954 was the last formal dance I had sporting those pre-Orpheum Barber Shop flat top locks.This week I went out to Sandy's lakeside home

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From the perspective of the WTHI TV tower cam 500 feet above the station on Ohio Street, the Vigo County Public Library looks like a wide "W" on the site where we spent those formative years. (you'll need to click on the small picture to see a bigger one... clicking on most of these gives you a slightly better view) by jdmcfall100Remember the Wiley mascot, Archibald? I have been told that

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The block north of the old Wiley High School on the west side of South 7th Street hasn't changed much in 50 years. Flower shop, and others leading to the Indiana Theater. The Bouliez donut shop has been replaced by a tattoo parlor. The block where Wiley sat is the site of the Public Library. It was hard for me to picture what the old Terre Haute High School and Wiley campus looked like so I

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How many can name all nine of these teachers without looking in the yearbook? The pictures came to me from Don Martin (class of 56) but everyone I knew at Wiley, from the class of '54 to '60, should be able to name most of them. Click on the picture to make it larger if you need to. Most of the above came to me via Don Martin. I can name most of these faculty members.In ways we cannot count, our

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It is almost the end of the long summer reunion season here in Terre Haute and the rains came this week and cooled things down so that the temperature is merely in the 80s after sundown. I picked up Mike McCormick at a party his daughter was throwing out on the south side of East Poplar Street in a neighborhood that seemed familiar to me. I wondered if it was part of the Corey Place where the

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These were taken at the Ute Shelter at Deming Park on the 24th of June.Mary Jane Aten FaustFred Smith John BlouchDoris Shaefer Williams Wayne BovenschenmobHarold Maxwell Wayne Bovenschen Barry AndersonBryce WestHaroldl Maxwell Gyp NehfDon BarrNancy Criss Town Barry Anderson

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Ambrosini'sJohn BlouchKaty Farmer Losier, Carolyn Boes (Gene's widow)KatyJulius LoesierRob RobbinsMike McCormick (56)Mary Farmer Conrad, Hank ConradLadonna GrimesAlyce Ann Reece Dressler Gyp Nehf SlaussenAlyce Ann!Larry Rush Rob Robbins Mary Ann Coppock (former Mrs. Tom Thomson) Bev Black(T58)Jay QuinnDave CoffinLarry Rush Wayne Bovenschen Tom Morgan (G58)Bev Black Stu "Deb" FreigyNancy Criss

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Ambrosini'sJohn BlouchKaty Farmer Losier, Carolyn Boes (Gene's widow)KatyJulius LoesierRob RobbinsMike McCormick (56)Mary Farmer Conrad, Hank ConradLadonna GrimesAlyce Ann Reece Dressler Gyp Nehf SlaussenAlyce Ann!Larry Rush Rob Robbins Mary Ann Coppock (former Mrs. Tom Thomson) Bev Black(T58)Jay QuinnDave CoffinLarry Rush Wayne Bovenschen Tom Morgan (G58)Bev Black Stu "Deb" FreigyNancy Criss

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I visited the W56 Reunion Friday night and took a few pictures. I haven't identified all the people photographed and I'm missing a few married names and some of the pictures are a little blurry (someday I'll learn to hold a camera steady) but you might want to see them.Mike McCormick makes an announcement regarding events of the Wiley 56 50th reunion weekend during cocktail hour(s) at the Elks

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I found this 19th century picture of Terre Haute High School in the online section of the Vigo County Public Library. It looks familiar.

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"I got a leech on me" I thought I heard Dean's voice from somewhere behind me. His wife Nancy was ahead of me and I didn't know if I heard him right or if he was addressing her in some married couple code. We were more than halfway to Bridgeton, IN from the Mansfield dam on one of western Indiana's most beautiful and little used creeks, Big Raccoon. There was a background clattering of loose

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Some folks made and paid for reservations at the Otter Creek all classes reunion but did not attend. The earliest class represented at St. Mary's was the class of 1931. Alas, I did not get a picture but I did get this of the two ladies who represented the Otter Creek class of 1935, Mary Ellen CARTY Black and Mary STEWART Russell. A group of former teachers received high praise during the

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The eligibility rules for Otter Creek reunions are simple enough: if you are still alive and you went to Otter Creek, come on up. All that's left of the 1917 school that closed in 1961 is the gymnasium building and memories. The class of 55 had their own private 50th reunion at the Rod and Gun club Friday night and then all classes met in the old gym this morning for an hour or two of lively

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Driving north on Parke County 600 at a point where the drainage ditch is several feet below the road, a bird appeared at my right as if to merge but splayed out his wings and red tail feathers to drop upon some unlucky prey. I had not seen a red-tailed hawk from this perspective before.I passed him as he settled into the ditch and that's how I got such a good look at him. A few miles north, I

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I went out to the garage to get my cell phone and camera this morning. Yesterday Dean and I and one of his friends from work, Kendall, kayaked on one of the few streams with enough water, middle Eel River, and I left everything in the El Camino when I got home: muddy kayak and river boots, wet tee shirt and sweaty straw hat, kayak seat and life vest, cell phone and my camera in its waterproof

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I went with Dean on a kayaking trip Saturday. We put in on Big Walnut at the Dick Huffman Bridge (Dean likes to call it the Pinkney Street Bridge because, I think, of old disputes with a Huffman descendant over recreational access to the river). We took out at the bridge where IN 42 crosses the Eel River.It's a trip I've made before but nothing changes more, trip to trip, than a moving stream.

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Of all times to be without my camera! My daughter is still recovering from an operation and not yet able to care for her second son, Anthony, who is sick with a flue bug (that caused godawful sinus drainage and nausea and eventual vomiting of green stuff the consistency of oatmeal) and my dear wife volunteered to sit with the sick boy if I would keep the number one grandson, Kevin, out of

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Upper right in this picture I nabbed from the WTHI-TV tower camera is Terre Haute's all time most famous neighborhood. Last month I accompanied a friend to the corner of 2nd and Cherry. Tom said we had been there before and it was a surprise to me because I never went there after Junior High and didn't meet Tom until late in high school but he remembers that we were showing an ISTC foreign

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This picture was captured from WTHI-TV tower cam on the date and time shown in the blue box. Center: east side of Terre Haute House. Right foreground: Ft. Harrison Savings and the Bement-Rae building. Together with the gray Federal building, upper right, and the red Tribune building, lower left, are the center of downtown Terre Haute. Hautians are trying to decide if this is a disposable core or

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