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Quotes To Live By
Provide by Carol MacDougall Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong. Alex Morgan Life is slippery. Here, take my hand. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions. Albert Einstein An arch consists of two weaknesses which leaning on each other become a strength. Leonardo […]
Noble Treasures Antiques In Lafayette Offers 6200 Sq. Ft. of Personality
By Jeannine Erlhoff Nancy and Terry West started West’s Antiques 36 years ago in Old Town Lafayette after Terry discovered a passion that developed during refinishing a second hand dresser he bought because he needed a place to put his socks. In 1981, the Wests bought the buildings in the 400 block of South Public Rd. where they […]
‘Canaries’ — Women Munitions Workers in World War I
By Barry Krause Women workers in the British munitions factories in World War I were nicknamed “canaries” because the high explosive chemical they used to fill shells was trinitrotoluene (TNT) which turned their faces bright yellow, and made their hair a bright ginger color. The color wouldn’t wash off, but it wore off gradually if they quit munitions work. A […]
An Irishman’s Dinner
At home we lived the “simple life,” With “pint and praties” for the dinner. And chicken stew on Sundays, too, (With nary a bit of chicken in her). But when you “find” some rabbits in The landlord’s ground (a poacher’s trick) It’s wise to call them something else— And so we called our rabbit “chick.” You take and cut the […]
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