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Posted October 28, 2009
The North Main Street Princess…
If you surveyed the kids of the forties…the melting pot of children from so many
different nationalities…the kids of North Main Street, Palmer, Massachusetts
would vote Gracie Carlson as their princess. Back in those days we didn’t know
about beauty pageants, but without a doubt the sweet smile…the blonde hair…the
magic personality of Gracie Carlson was inescapable. Gracie loved everyone and
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Posted October 4, 2009
The people lost an unimportant word…
For my 79th birthday my family gave me the Amazon’s Kindle. It’s an electronic
book that affords instant downloads of books and a new marvelous way of reading
on a clear screen with your choice of font size. Large font sizes are especially
keen to those of us approaching the age of octogenarian [...]
Posted August 16, 2009
Many thanks to a great Air Force officer, Colonel Morton Jacobs for this rendition of Air Force Blue. [...]
Summer 1949 … It Was A Very Good Year
Posted July 17, 2009
Two hard years of double-time studying were fulfilled. Charlie had completed two years of high school in one year and graduated with his class and Jug had moved up from a sophomore status to senior and would be rejoining his class next September … and he would be the in-coming President [...]
Posted June 9, 2009
Chas St George, Public Relations Director for the Alaskan
Iditarod was presented with his third consecutive Emmy in
Spokane, Washington 30 May 09 for his 2008 Iditarod Documentary
Film. Chas won sililiam awards for his 2006 and 2007
Documentaries. [...]
Posted May 29, 2009
Peter Josef is at Macquarie University in Sydney. He’s talking the following classes-Drugs Across Cultures (which is why he has papers about marijuana on his blog), Australians and their Environment, Evolution and Biodiversity and Critical Thinking. [...]
Posted May 25, 2009
Jason graduated from the University of Southern California Marshal School of
Business. He received a Masters of Business Administration . Jason graduated
with honors from the International Business Honors Society - Beta Gamma Sigma.
Jason is the son of Jeffery and Charlotte (St. George) Williams of Saugus,
California and is employed by [...]
The Motto of The LaPorte-StGeorge Family Crest contains the Latin phrase A Posse Ad Esse. Translated it means From Possibility To Actuality…or From Possible To Actual…it could also mean From Plan To Project or From Do To Done. [...]
Chas St George, Public Relations Director for the Alaskan Iditarod, made national news in the March 2009 Rotarian magazine. [...]
All five of the St. George kids were posed on the front lawn of the Reimann Farm…behind them 125 acres of rich Illinois farmland. [...]
Posted April 7, 2009
It was the Christmas of 1950. I was a year out of high school and brother Jug had graduated in June. We were “bach’ing” it at 11 Cross Street, Palmer, Massachusetts living with our mother, Margaret Elizabeth (Lane) St. George and an old maid of an aunt, Mary Lane, who was . [...]
Thanksgiving Memory ... November 1951
Posted April 7, 2009
I had been living out of a duffle bag since I entered the Air Force on the 26th of February 1951. On the chance that I could qualify for the USAF Lockland AFB Band of the West, I was sent from my New England place of enlistment to Texas (most enlistees were taking their basic training at Samson Air Base in upstate New York). [...]
Posted April 7, 2009
Recently discovered the following notes on holiday memories.
It was News Years Eve 1961. We were stationed at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois
and lived in the town of Lebanon. [...]
Posted March 14, 2009
At an early age, Charlie and Ralph (Jug) St. George formed combos and a big band, The Ambassadors, which played throughout the state of Massachusetts during the late 1940s and early 1950s. [...]
Posted March 14, 2009
May Ruth recently told me that during the 1930’s she and her high school class were dismissed early to join the crowd along Main and Thorndike Streets in Palmer, Massachusetts to wave and cheer on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt when he made his bid for re-election to his second term. [...]
Association des Laporte et St-Georges du Monde
Posted March 14, 2009
“According to our records, the great majority of Laporte and Quebec-descended St-Georges in America have the same common ancestor in Jacques de LaPorte dit St-Georges. Many people had a ‘dit name’ in North America. This habit disappeared in the 1920’s in Quebec, following a decree responding to the need to simplify the recording and control of the population especially during censuses.” — Yvan St-Georges. [...]