American Legacies Organization, Inc.

Robertson Bruce Graham

A WWII Remembrance

Submitted by: Randy Graham © July 2003 Roseville, CA

December 7, 1941

Caroline Graham

a university student living in Australia. 

They say that if you draw a map of everywhere you have ever been, what you actually draw is your own face. If that is true, Jesse Houston has probably seen it all.

Wagon Train History: Story telling Style

By Author: Rita Redd

Scenes in many of the wagon train movies show some historical content along with fiction. Wagon travel was used from the 1700’s into the early 1900’s. The last major wagon travel with a large group of people was the great gold rush 1897 to 1898.

The History of Halloween

By Jennifer Thompson

By Connie Sychowski

Editor Genealogy Corner

Halloween was brought to America in the 1840's by immigrants fleeing Ireland’s potato famine. Favorite pranks of today, egging, shaving cream or toilet papering differ from those that happened in New England which included tipping over outhouses and unhinging fence gates.

English style Cranberry Sauce

Makes 8 - 10 servings

12-ounce bag fresh cranberries
½ cup firmly packed light brown sugar, or to taste
1/4 cup port or sherry, more or less to taste

Combine the ingredients in a large saucepan. Cook over low heat, covered, until the cranberries have burst and the mixture thickens, about 20 to 25 minutes. Let cool, then refrigerate until needed. Serve cold or at room temperature.

By Ella Goethe Henry

Grandma’ Kitchen Comments

Rootbeer
My Grandfather, William Sturgen was born around 1874 and was almost 100 years old when he died. He used to make his own rootbeer. He would dig up sassafras root and cut it into 4 to 6 inch long pieces. Then he would split it lengthwise into ½ inch pieces about the diameter of a pencil to help it dry faster. After it sat on a shelf for a month to 6 weeks it was dry enough to use. 

Author Unknown

I was six years old in 1941. My parents had divorced and my mother was trying to provide housing for my two teenaged sisters and me in San Diego. There was nothing to rent as the city was bulging with military.

That Sunday we (the four of us) were busy converting my Grandpa's old chicken house into a house for us. My job was straightening the used nails for reuse via hammer and a big flat stone.

By Ethel Geary