Posted in How We Live(d) Here (& There) on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Grampa Outhousespider
Seems to me that all this misunderstanding about national healthcare and getting our behinders OUT of Afghanistan and impeaching ALL of the bullshipping Republicans and Democrats in DC that we can catch, it is all just typicaller than hell of the farming life too. It reminds me of the old Greater Iowa story about Trouble On [...]
Posted in How We Live(d) Here (& There) on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Emmett Smith
Another artifact of the railway age now seldom thought about were the great Sunday newspapers. Our mother in the 1930s got
Posted in How We Live(d) Here (& There) on October 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Voices From The Past: Old New England Engineman Preserved Wook On A Trainman’s Holiday In The Far West With The Union Pacific
by Joseph Curwen
“‘Global Warming’ you say? And the government be in on it too? Well, goodness gracious, count me in, where do I sign up for mine? What’s that…NOT to burn coal you say? [...]
Posted in How We Live(d) Here (& There) on September 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
by Emmett R Smith
This is the tombstone of some forebears who are buried in the Good Shepherd Cemetery of the Immanuel German Lutheran Church, in old Mankato, MN. It is of a great-great-grandfather, Anton, and a great-great-grandmother, Wilhelmina Frohrip Schippel. They were emigrants one hundred-and-fifty years ago, from Saxony and Prussia in what would become [...]
Posted in How We Live(d) Here (& There) on July 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Voices From The Past: PRR Engineman Preserved Wook
by Joseph Curwen
“‘Global Warming’ you say? And the government in on it too? Well, goodness gracious, count me in, where do I sign up for mine? What’s that…NOT to burn coal you say? How’s that again, but just how ever in Tophet do you propose getting to [...]
Posted in How We Live(d) Here (& There) on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Emmett Smith
The reason steam locomotives appeal to so many people of our Baby Boom generation is that they bring to life again the child we all were once upon a time. Steam locomotives more than maybe any other “adult” thing actually LOOK like fullsize toys.
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In fact they still do! This Pennsylvania Railroad Q2 locomotive [...]
Posted in How We Live(d) Here (& There) on May 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
by Emmett Smith
Who cost the most are those always who live
Posted in How We Live(d) Here (& There) on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Grampa
“Grampa, what were the Obama Years REALLY like?”
“Well, Sluggo, it was a really magical time when…
Posted in How We Live(d) Here (& There) on March 17, 2009 | 9 Comments »
by Emmett Smith
First the bad news, the immortal narrator of our true American moral condition, the inimitable creator of Captain Pissgums and Ruby The Dyke, Pirate Queen, the Pulitzer-worthy author of “Lester Gass, Midnight Misogynist,” S Clay Wilson was reported to be either mugged or run down in a serious hit-and-run accident in San Francisco, [...]
Posted in How We Live(d) Here (& There) on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Emmett R Smith
The namby-pamby anxieties of our Baby Boom and no-good, 1946-64 non-productive, professionalistic self-styled “elite” is revealed in the following
