Our Favorite Stories

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  Young Kenny’s Shoe Saga
  by Ken
  January 20, 2022
  CHAPTER ONE THE SAGA OF THE ANTI-NIKE FOR LIFE A little brother’s dream trip to Burlington In the winter of 1956 or thereabouts, when I was in the first grade, … Read more
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  Hugo’s little-known Tornado
  by Gary
  March 10, 2021
  I was being pelted by sand the size of BB pellets, thousands of them hitting me at once. Mommy screamed at me to get into the car, it’s a tornado…
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  Marienburg Castle in Lower Saxony, Germany
  by Gary
  August 24, 2016
  A little fairy welcomes us to the beautiful castle Marienburg. A happy memory of our visit on August 2, 2016, by Marilyn and Gary Pickens This castle in Marienburg, near … Read more
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  A Memory: When Aretha Franklin Visited The U.S.O.
  by Marilyn
  February 23, 1971
  I still remember a gray day in February 1971. Anti-war sentiment in San Francisco, California was running high, and the U.S.O. at 1017 Market Street, where I worked as a … Read more