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Drenched in sunshine: Drying clothes before the age of the dryer
Posted Thursday, August 11, at 10:45 AM By ELLIE BUTTERFIELD Guest Columnist Long before the clothes dryer or hanging laundry on basement lines my Grandma and Mother hung the clothes on a clothes line. They wore a clothes pin apron. Every Monday, they washed the clothes in a wringer washer in the basement. First, it was filled with hot water to wash all the white linens, then the rest of the laundry...
When life was simple and safe and The Ouija Board told what the future would hold By ELLIE BUTTERFIELD Guest Columnist When I was a child growing up in Marshall, life was predictable. You got up in the morning, went downstairs to the kitchen to eat your oatmeal, toast and jelly, drink your orange juice and go to school. Your parents hugged and kissed you and told you to have a good day...
By ELLIE BUTTERFIELD Guest Columnist Growing up in Marshall I remember it being a town filled with music. But back then we didn't have television so we made our own entertainment. My mother, Nell, was an accomplished piano player so almost every night after dinner we gathered around the upright piano and sang while Mother played the songs of those days: "Let Me Call You Sweetheart," "The Desert Song" and "Amazing Grace."...
By FLOYD CASE Guest Columnist Flag Day was an important part of my youthful memories. In our home, we regularly displayed a large American flag on the porch of our home in Kansas City. My dad served in the U.S. Navy during World War I. After his discharge, he purchased a home in Kansas City and became an employee of Union Station. A few years later, he considered marriage and a family since he had a house that could become a home. Soon he had a wife and three children...
Life before the baby boomers By ELEANOR ELLINGSON (ELLIE) BUTTERFIELD Guest Columnist Now days we are hearing about the life changes the Baby Boomers will be facing. But take a trip with me down memory lane and remember how our lives were ahead of them. We paved the path for them, we taught them how life can be by working hard. Just as our parents taught us...
By DIANA WOODS Guest Columnist Probably nobody in the Marshall High School class of 1957 was at all surprised when Bob James became a famous, world-class musician. His music was all around us during our years in school. He played in recitals and concerts and accompanied various school musical groups. He even toured during the summer with a renowned jazz band. We knew he was special in the same way we knew he was slender and had brown hair...
By MARVIN and VIRGINIA SPRIGG Guest Columnists Editor's note: Virginia Sprigg is a member of the Marshall Cultural Council Board of Directors. The organization is co-sponsoring the first Bob James Jazz Festival May 21 with Missouri Valley College...
Recalling Mercy Academy in the 1930s and 1940s By VIRGINIA KESSLER SPRIGGColumnist What a grand old place that 3-story building was. The beautiful grounds were a framework of the building and cared for mostly by the nuns that taught school to children in grades one through twelve. My parents, Lorene (Hayob) and Lawrence H. Kessler lived with my grandparents, Andrew and Anna Hayob, on their farm five miles west of Marshall on 24 Highway until it was time for me to start school...
Saline County's Piano Man: Bob James By Andrea Hatfield Editor's note: This article was first published in the Marshall Writer's Guild's 2009 "Saline Silhouettes" and is republished with permission of the author. Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist Bob James has recorded more than fifty albums over the last four decades and performed in concerts throughout America and the rest of the world. ...
Remembering the old Auditorium Theatre By Eleanor "Ellie" (Ellingson) Butterfield Columnist The end of an era. I just read in the Democrat-News that the Marshall Cinema is closing. With that announcement part of the history of Marshall is dead. For those of us who grew up here, we have so many memories of growing up, and going to the movies was a big part of our lives...
Soapbox speaker in Marshall Third Child posted this comment Friday, Aug. 21: Public Square When I was a lad there was a woman who would choose a position on the square in Marshall, usually on the south or east side, and give extemporaneous speeches to any and all that would listen. I was young and didn't really understand what it was all about but do recall damning jabs being thrown at the inhabitants of the courthouse across the street in a voice as loud as a bullhorn...
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