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Fantasy Fireworks and a Special Offer

Fantasy Fireworks and a Special Offer

by MarianBeaman | Jul 5, 2023 | blog, Coming of Age, Family / Nostalgia, Mennonite History, Mennonite Lore, popular culture, Quotations

Roz Chast’s June 19 magazine cover is explosive! She imagines shopping for novelty fireworks in a store of her own wild imagination:   Friendship Ender Lawsuit Huge Rent Increase Pointless Rage Shingles Root Canal Sense of Doom Red Tape Guilt Bomb    ...
A Glorious Fourth, 1909 Style and a Memoir Tip

A Glorious Fourth, 1909 Style and a Memoir Tip

by MarianBeaman | Jun 29, 2016 | blog, Family / Nostalgia, Memory, Mennonite History, Nostalgia, Tips, Uncategorized

Would you pass up an invitation to a lawn soirée on a holiday weekend? This week more than 100 years ago my grandma, Miss Fanny Martin, then a single woman, received a penny postcard invitation to such a gathering on July 3, 1909.   Mary Elizabeth Kob writes in...

Liberty Bell, Still Ringing

by MarianBeaman | Jul 3, 2015 | blog, Family / Nostalgia, popular culture, Uncategorized

You are seeing the thumbnail of an animated card waiting for you over on my Facebook page. The festivities in the town square here are set to the tune of Sousa’s Liberty Bell March. The tune, famous in the 1970s as the theme song for Monty Python’s Flying...

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