Archive for History
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What Does October Have to Offer?
By Eloise Graham October offers its beautiful birthstones: the opal and pink tourmaline. The opal is the traditional stone for October. Opal, an iridescent stone, is in a class by itself. As a species, opal is so unique it has its own descriptive vocabulary, opalescent. More than any other gem, eac...
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Pumpkin Pie
By Mary Schricker Gemberling Mary Schricker Gemberling is on her annual autumn trip. She has some exciting tales to tell about the first part, but was not finished with the trip before we needed to go to press. So she asked to reprint one of her fall favorites. Enjoy the read from the past and loo...
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Just Saying…
I Survived the Great Rocky Mountain Road Trip By Q.C. Jones For the past several years, your cordial correspondent QC Jones has marked the end of the summer with a road trip to visit the majestic mountains of New Mexico and Colorado. The stated official destination is Taos, New Mexico to participa...
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September Tidbits
By Eloise Graham September is the ninth month of our calendar year, even though the prefix “septa” means seven. Once upon a time the calendar had ten months. September, October, November and December were named for the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth months. January had 90 days. It was followe...
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER
English 101 By Eloise Graham I ought not give it a thought, but I did. I pondered and I wondered, I wondered and I pondered (shouldn’t those rhyme?) and I even wandered as I pondered. I thoroughly thought it through, and though I have no solution I do know the English language is a rough and tou...
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Being a Grandparent
By Mary Schricker Gemberling “Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.” ... Lois Wise In 1969, nine-year old Russell Capper sent a letter to President Nixon suggesting a day be set aside to ...
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Calendar of Events | August 2023
If you have an upcoming event that you would like published, please mail info to: 50+Lifestyles, P. O. Box 2125, Davenport, IA, 52809 Attn: Eloise or email: publisher@50pluslife.com Attn: Eloise. Please submit by the 10th of the month prior to the month you want activity listed. Support Grou...
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August, the Eighth Month of Our Year
By Eloise Graham The August birthstone is the peridot. It is a pale green to yellow-green gem stone. This gem has been found in both Greek and Roman jewelry dating as far back as the 16th century BC. The Egyptians called this lustrous stone the “gem of the gods.” The secondary birthstone for Au...
