Male and Female Conversational Style
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Supporting CSotD
I've decided to skip Patreon and Kickstarter and GoFundMe and simply ask for your support.
One issue with funding programs is that there's only so much I can offer as a reward: I can't give you early access, because I post each morning as soon as I can (usually by 8:30 Eastern Time US). And I can't produce a "Best of ..." series because it would violate the fair use which is at the heart of this blog.
So I've had some mugs made up which are hefty enough to keep your coffee hot while you read the blog each morning, will withstand dishwashers without fading and have smooth interiors that don't become discolored.
In other words, these are some damn fine diner mugs and you'll be happy to have one.
And getting one is easy: Just send me $30, either by Paypal to [email protected] or by post to
Mike Peterson
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And getting two mugs is equally easy: Just send me $50, same methods.
If you're overseas, email me first so we can figure out postage, which appears to be outrageous because these are hearty mugs, but, then again, they are hearty mugs and so wotthehell. You'll be happy with them.
And I thank you in advance, and remind you that the Amazon link, which costs you nothing extra but returns a commission to me, has also helped keep CSotD at least revenue neutral, if not a source of riches.
The Fenian Invasions
June 6, 2016, marks 150 years since one of a small number of invasions of Canada by Fenian nationalists, primarily Irish-American veterans of the Civil War. Here is a series of articles I researched and wrote about the events at the 125th anniversary in 1991.
As always, clicking on an illustration will produce a larger version that may be easier to read.
Family clippings
The wedding story got me curious so I poked around a little and from some stuff on a site I subscribe to for other reasons, but it works for this, too.
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If you want to save any of these, just right-click and "save image" to a place you can find it again.
Not "Consonant" but "Constance" who popped up in the local news often, as here:
Thought they'd stayed up there longer than this:
Sept 1928 --
Dec 10, 1928 -- Grandpa quoted
June 23, 1933
Either there's a typo in that first line or Mom and Dad were a lot more fun before I came along.
August 18, 1950 -- And I'll bet he did, 'cause he always did.
More Scouting News, different AFP
May 8, 1954 -- I don't think of Dad being young enough to do this, not with me already around and everything ...
Lots of familiar names!
And we're movin' on up ... well, across town anyway ...
I can imagine him saying that. In fact, I can remember him saying it to a much smaller audience.
LDN, December 26, 1962
Didn't know about this, but I remember Dr. Kerr. He gave out plaster animals, which I assume he (or his nurse) cast themselves. And he made house calls. And, if I remember correctly, he looked the part.
Office tech, 1990
Here are the two articles, which may be readable simply by clicking on them. If not, the links below will give you a full-size PNG. They're worth reading not simply for the snickers over Liquid Paper and car phones but for the comments on changes in how business worked, particularly for "secretaries" and their bosses.
