Category Archives: History

My Journals

Posted on March 24, 2011 by dumpster

I keep a journal. In fact, I keep several journals. This blog is one. I have another that I write entries in each day. I’ve been keeping the daily journal for a number of years, stretching back into the 1990s. … Continue reading →

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Diet of Worms

Posted on October 24, 2009 by dumpster

Worms – slimy and yucky and gross as most of them are to us – are a primary source of food for many creatures. Birds eat worms, especially birds like Robins and Bluebirds whose diets consist mostly of insects and … Continue reading →

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The Fair of 1918

Posted on May 21, 2009 by dumpster

County fairs, pandemics, world wars, catastrophic conflagrations. How can all these things come together in one climactic week in Warsaw, Indiana? Continue reading →

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Name Game

Posted on April 6, 2009 by dumpster

One remarkable day in the fall of 1960, at German Township Elementary School just west of South Bend, Indiana, one of my classmates in Robert L. Holderman’s sixth grade reading class asked our enthusiastic and effusive teacher to divulge his … Continue reading →

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Basketball at Mrs. Good’s

Posted on April 4, 2009 by dumpster

The following article was written for my unpublished magazine, 219 Sycamore St.  It is basically a historical piece, although I took the liberty (after confessing as much) of imagining what the “gymnasium” looked like and how the spectators and players … Continue reading →

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