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POEM SALUTING MY COUSIN VELMA GRACE
Salute to My Cousin VG My Cousin VG By Don Henderson 2/16/2006 She was my cousin, my Sister in Christ, my friend Yet she was much more, To me than kin Velma Grace was, someone to lean upon during troubled time Someone to laugh with, She was the happy kind. Her own problems she always…
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JOHNNY MATHIS AT TEXAS A&M
TEXAS A&M CONCERT IN 1967 In 1966-67, I was a recipient of a National Foundation Grant for an Academic Year at Texas A&M. There were approximately 30 of us, all science teachers, given the opportunity to gain more knowledge and perhaps receive a Graduate degree. It was a fun year, one filled with lots of…
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The Beginnings of my Oceanography/Marine Science Fieldtrips
In 1967, after my one year at Texas A&M graduate school, I decided to go back to Houston and apply for a job in one of the High Schools. I was sent to Sam Houston High School, at the time the largest high school in Houston and the oldest. I shall never forget my interview…
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INTRODUCTION TO MY KNOTHOLE, Everyone Looks at life through their own KNOTHOLE
As I look through my old KNOTHOLE, I see many old memories that remind me of both good times and bad. Yesterday I had a WordPress post that has disappeared, and so I am having to reconstruct the post as best I can remember. One of the prime reasons I began the website blakehart.com was so I…
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My Special Summer at the Beach
6/26/21 June is when I am drawn toward memories of staying with the Powers in Pt. Neches, Texas. It was during this period in which I began visiting during the summer months. Mother, Paul, and Vivien lived at 1121 MacArthur in Pt. Neches, and this was my summer destination starting in about 1946. I visited…
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Pearl Harbor Attack, December 7th, 1941
12/10/2021, Updated December 1, 2022 Story transcribed from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfkkIZvuu2ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfkkIZvuu2o Link to December 7, 1941Pearl Harbor attack I was three years old when this attack occurred and it was a short time later that I realized the impact of it. My Dad was killed in a car accident May 1939, when I was 8 months old.…