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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.…