Sunday, October 17, 2021

To Kansas and Back

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  by Pa Rock Road Warrior Rosie and I are safely back in West Plains after our hurried weekend trip to Kansas. We left West Plains fairly ea...
Saturday, October 16, 2021

Huzzah! (And All that Jazz!)

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  by Pa Rock Time-Traveling Tourist During my infrequent trips to visit my son's family in the Kansas burbs of Kansas City, I often rema...
Friday, October 15, 2021

Ancestor Archives: Abraham Martin (ca. 1781-1862) and Mourning Biggs (ca. 1792-1877)

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  by Rocky Macy Abraham MARTIN was born around 1781 in Rockingham County, North Carolina.  He married Mourning BIGGS, but the date and place...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

$enator $inema: John McCain She Ain't!

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  by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Back sometime during Barack Obama's earliest days in the White House and while I was working as a social...
Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Coming Soon: The 1950 Census

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  by Pa Rock Family Researcher Updated: For the past several days I have been mired down in census records as I try to piece together the li...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Olive Is Ten!

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by Pa Rock Proud Grandpa My oldest granddaughter, Olive Noel Macy, is ten-years-old today - double digits!  I was home on leave from my job ...
Monday, October 11, 2021

Should Seniors be Exempt from Paying Property Taxes?

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  by Pa Rock Senior Citizen Someone sent up a trial balloon on Twitter  this week suggesting that people over the age of sixty-five should b...
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Sunday, October 10, 2021

Keeping "the Crazy" in Check

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Just keeping "the crazy" in check can be a major accomplishment in its own right. Georgia Congresswo...
Saturday, October 9, 2021

Ancestor Archives: Garland Eugene Macy (1924-2009) Part 3: Chasing the Dream

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  by Rocky Macy Part 3:  Chasing the Dream    Garland MACY was honorably discharged from the US Army Air Corps on December 18th, 1945, and r...
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Friday, October 8, 2021

Mrs. O'Leary's Damned Cow May Have Been a Horse!

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Newspapers.com , a cash cow that resides in the barn of Ancestry.com , which, in turn, is majority-owned by th...
Thursday, October 7, 2021

Oh Give Me a Home Where the White-Tailed Deer Roam . . .

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  by Pa Rock Nature Lover The deer seem to sense when the shooting is about to start. Yesterday in the mid-morning I stood on the back porch...
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Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Missouri Exacts Revenge on Mentally Impaired Black Man

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  by Pa Rock Missourian Yesterday evening just before dark the state of Missouri put 61-year-old Ernest Lee Johnson to death for three bruta...