Volume 12 , Issue 36

Duchess Mountain Domain

Woof! Woof! Finally! There is a sense in the air that Fall is soon to arrive around here in Southwest Colorado. With the Labor Day weekend we have slipped from August to September 2010 with Fall weather creeping upon us soon. Also, The motorcyclists have returned to the area.This year a new item, old classic cars was added to the parade down Main Avenue.

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NW Okie's Ramblings

The thunder and rumblings of cyclists and classic cars thundered down Main Avenue in Durango, Colorado this Sunday, Labor Day weekend of September 2010. This is just a taste of what NW Okie and David saw Sunday. We all have our own favorite old classic cars and hot rods. These two classic hotrods are my favorites. What are yours?

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Cooking On A Wrought Iron Range

A few years ago I found a 1930's Wrought Iron Range Home Comfort Cookbook at a garage sale in my hometown of Alva, Woods County, Oklahoma. So I grabbed this old Home Comfort Cookbook to add to my other antique collectibles. It was not only a cookbook, but a manual for the Model CB Wrought Iron Stove that was heated by wood or coal in the 1930's (approx. 1934).

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Home Comfort Cookbook Hints - Canning & Preserving Fruits

The following are someHome Comfort Cookbook hints for canning, preserving fruits on your Wrought Iron Range, as taken from the free 1934 Home Comfort Cookbook that the Culver Brothers Company sent out with each range in the earlier 1930's. That does not mean you have to go backwards to the days of cooking on a wood burning range, though.

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Remembering American Folk of The Kingston Trio

Remember the Kingston Trio? Are you of the era of this American Folk trio? My older sisters were in that age group of the late 1950s thru the early 1960s. I remember the album collections they had accumulated and played many times. Whatever happened to those records?

The Kingston Trio came on the scene before my teen years, but I still like listening to their music today. Great songs!

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The Legend of Tom Dula (Dooley)

Who was Tom Dula (Dooley)? Wikipedia states this about the song, Tom Dooley, "Tom Dooley was an old North Carolina folk song based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in Wilkes County, North Carolina.

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Ancestry's Immigration Resources Gets Bigger

It was not easy to get here, but it is easy to go back and search the world's largest online collection of U.S. immigration records through Explore immigration resources at Ancestry.com's US Immigration Collection.

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90-year-Old WWII Vet Recounts Remarkable Musical Moment

Joel, in Nevada, sent us this link to 90-year-old WWII Vet Recounts Remarkable Musical Moment.

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Blowin' In the Wind

Some forty-seven years later and Blowing in the Wind is still a great song! I like the Kingston Trio version the best, though!

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Looking For J. E. Crosbie

Back in Volume 10, Issue 8, dated 2008-02-24, we had a feature concerning someone "Looking For J. E. Crosbie." The inquiry stated, "Looking for information on J.E. Crosbie of Tulsa banker, oil man, and horse breeder. Any pictures or informatiom stories etc. Writing a biography book. -- John Looby - Email: jlooby3@hotmail.com"

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