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Tag Archives: clippings

Future of artificial limbs (prosthetics)

If these men were alive today, wouldn’t they be amazed?

16 Apr 1973, Mon The Buffalo News (Buffalo, New York) Newspapers.com
January 28, 2023 by dlschirf Posted in Blog Tagged clippings, New York, news, nostalgia Reply

“Hirohito Wouldn’t Understand”

This is from the June 7, 1943, edition of the Altoona Tribune (Pennsylvania).

07 Jun 1943, Mon Altoona Tribune (Altoona, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
June 10, 2022 by dlschirf Posted in Blog Tagged advertising, clippings, nostalgia, Pennsylvania Reply

Marietta Schirf, WAC editor

words and images Posted on March 22, 2020 by dlschirfMarch 22, 2020

Marietta Schirf was my dad’s youngest sister. He said he didn’t know how she snuck into the Armed Forces because he was sure she didn’t meet the minimum height requirement.

At a 1980s July 4th concert on Capitol Hill, E. G. Marshall officiating, veterans by branch were asked to stand up. When the turn came for the Air Force, she stood and whooped, to the surprise of our neighbors on the grass. I asked why Air Force, and she answered she’d been in the Army Air Corps. That’s the first I’d heard that.

Aunt Marietta died in the mid-90s. How she would have appreciated the resources of the internet. She once took me to the Library of Congress to look up articles on sugalite.

I will have to look up Front and Center. On the internet.

Marietta Schirf
Marietta Schirf at work on Front and Center
Posted in Blog, Life, Reminiscence | Tagged clippings, family, news, nostalgia, Pennsylvania | Leave a reply

Hike and a picnic

words and images Posted on January 28, 2019 by dlschirfJanuary 28, 2019

Today is the 100th anniversary of my mother’s birth. I discovered this delightful clipping about a hike to a farm and a picnic with storytelling under a big tree she helped to organize. It could be straight out of Anne of Green Gables.

I love finding these blurbs. This and others are giving me new insight into my parents’ early lives pre-me.

Posted in Blog, Life, Reminiscence | Tagged clippings, family, news, nostalgia, Pennsylvania | 2 Replies

Stop the presses! Family members visit other family members in Williamsport

words and images Posted on January 22, 2019 by dlschirfFebruary 3, 2019

I jest, but this does bring back memories of visits back and forth when I was young enough to be bored but old enough to appreciate any change in routine. This was a visit without us, though.

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Schirf state visit to Bellwood, Pennsylvania

words and images Posted on January 22, 2019 by dlschirfJanuary 28, 2019

This morning I, “Dianne Schirg,” made this marvelous discovery from a simpler time when a family visit to Bellwood, Pennsylvania, was noteworthy.

Posted in Blog, Life, Reminiscence | Tagged clippings, family, news, nostalgia, Pennsylvania | 2 Replies

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