Archive for History
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Just Saying…
By Q.C. Jones The mother of all... Mother’s day is just around the corner. This would be a great time for old QC Jones to go into karma collector mode and lay out mushy remembrances of Mother’s Days long past. Yes Ma’am with a flick of his arthritis infested typing fingers, yours truly could...
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The Mississippi: Servant or Master
By Jan Rittmer Ridgecrest Village resident Here at Ridgecrest Village where I live, one resident calls herself, “A river rat from down by Muscatine,” and doubts she could sleep without the river flowing nearby. One man learned to sail on Lake Davenport above Lock and Dam 15, and remembers th...
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May – The Emerald Month
By Eloise Graham May’s birthstone is the emerald. Mention emerald and we immediately think of that bright, deep jewel-tone green. In reality, it can come in various colors. The scientific name of the emerald is beryl or vberyllium and is mined as such. The chemical composition is Be3Al2(SiO3)6....
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Just Saying…
By Q.C. Jones Ancestors of Aliens in the QCA? The Mysterious Case of Non-Human DNA Strains First, let me wish all my friends out there in the far reaches of our Great Quad-Cities, USA a happy and healthy April. Even though April starts off with the infamous Fool’s day, let me assure you that...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston For you readers who pay close attention to the promises I make about “next Months” subject, Spring excitement will appear in May when our greenery and selection of purchased blooms are as firm as set jello. Can we wait to make good on the winters’ pondering and all the rest? ...
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Turning Your Memories Into Memoirs
By Darrell Lietz Ridgecrest Village resident In her book, Your Legacy Matters, Rachel Freed writes, “ Imagine that you are leaving for a vacation or a business trip and you have not told your kids everything you want them to know – about you, about what matters most to you, about what you hope...
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER
By Eloise Graham Daylight Savings Time: To Change or Not to Change At the time of this writing, we are one week into Daylight Savings Time. How is everyone’s sleep going? There seems to be a lot of controversy about having to change clocks and pill taking routines. Have any of you been talking...
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Shamrocks and Palm Trees
By Mary Schricker Gemberling “Wherever you go and whatever you do, May the luck of the Irish be there with you!” As promised last month my article for March is being written with my toes in the sand on a sunny Florida gulf coast beach, Anna Maria Island. Since our January arrival in the suns...
