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Showing posts with label SC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SC. Show all posts
Monday, January 8, 2018

Remembering My 2017

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2017 began as a very traumatic year.  The New Year came a few days after my brother, Tom, died. Perhaps that set the tone for most of the ye...
Thursday, August 17, 2017

First Day of School

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Here in lovely Charleston, South Carolina it is the first day of school for most students.  I spent part of this morning enjoying all the ...
Saturday, June 24, 2017

Sixty-Two Years Ago Today My Mama Was Pregnant

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Sixty-two years ago today, it was a Friday, in the little Upstate South Carolina town where my parents lived with my three brothers and my o...
Friday, December 2, 2016

Flood, Hurricane, Fire - Earthquake?

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The past couple of years have brought one weather disaster after another.   Record high temperatures.   1000 year flood.   Hurricane Mat...
Thursday, October 6, 2016

Hurricane Matthew: Wednesday Before Landfall in Charleston, SC: A True Story

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My workplace closed at 5:30 PM yesterday (Tuesday) and began evacuation of the students.  It took me about an hour to do my normal 15 minute...
Saturday, September 24, 2016

Remembering Hurricane Hugo: A True Story

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Hurricanes are like wars.  The destruction is brief compared to the clean up of debris and lives.  The emotional scars of both seldom ever t...
Thursday, August 4, 2016

My Ancestor, William Humphries, a Patriot, Wounded at the Battle of Kings Mountain, October 7, 1780

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Yesterday I told you that my sons and granddaughters are direct descendants of Col. Frederick Hambright, who fought in the Battle of Kings M...