In the air…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek BEA, BOAC, Pan Am, Where Did You Go? As he anticipates another 10,000-mile round trip sojourn to Hawaii to keep a promise to his deceased wife, the Footloose Forester is getting lost...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On The Map…Again!!! Maps, mapping, staring at maps, and using them as informative tools have always been integral to a footloose wanderer who usually consulted with them before planning an...
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We are planning new Legacy services for 2022. Legacy Stories wants to enable everyone to record their stories and pass on their wisdom to future generations. STAY TUNED !
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On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On Ambitions Only when the Footloose Forester reviewed the presumed acknowledgment/comment box for Ambitious about students in his class, as reported in the for-profit website called Classmates, did he even think about himself...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Sooner or Later, It Was Going to be About Dodge City The On the road…again!!! Chronicles of the Footloose Forester were tucked away in his mental notebook for many years. Many came to light...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Tongue in Cheek, Pen in Hand For some time now, the Footloose Forester has wanted to add a humorous chronicle to his collection of seminal musings. In the LegacyStories.org website that serves as...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Whiskey, Leave the Bottle! Those familiar lines, to the devotees of Gunsmoke and its many recorded re-runs, are thought triggers that spurred subsequent actions among the many sodbusters, wranglers, drifters, gunslingers, and others...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek 42.657, -76.211 Had the Evidence The Wisconsin Glacier that pushed south into NE United States about 12,000 years ago left many unacknowledged gifts that are part of our everyday life today. Geologists may quibble...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Anecdotes Keep Coming Back As an arthritic old geezer reveals his slower gait and hobbles along on well-traveled legs, he realizes that his inherited genes for snark, sarcasm, and persnickety tale-telling are as polished and needy...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Underwater The very modern and accurate mapping capabilities found in Google Earth are a joy to manipulate and to have at the ready, anytime the Footloose Forester wants to check out the status of before-after photos...
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I only know a few stories about my early life. My parents lived with my grandparents. My dad was attending the University of Alabama on the GI Bill. My mother continued to live with her in-laws until my dad was able to get married student housing in Tuscaloosa. The housing available...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Drinkin’ an’ Drivin’ The large refrigerator magnet sent to the Footloose Forester by a female friend (the Best Friend of the deceased Bengal Tiger) was definitely one kitchen item trying to make a point. ...
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This is the recorded conversation between my Mom Alene Poe and me on February 7, 2015. We were talking about my Mom's experiences during WW2.
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Courier Another dream-inspired chronicle, but hey! Whatever works. Truth be told, the seeds of many chronicles germinated during dreams but the pre-writing phase was usually shortly after waking, and the first draft started...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Tenderfoot Practicing Living The tenderfoot practicing life, who also calls himself the Footloose Forester , had another dream last night and decided that he would share the fragments of his innermost thoughts as...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Where Am I? The main thought running through his head in another of those disjointed dreams was, “where am I?” A sunny scene flashed by, a few loaded words, another scene in a plain,...
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On the road, again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Gold is Buried at … His dying words were numbers that I cannot remember, but as he feebly put the hand-written scrap of paper into my hand, I knew that the...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Better Bagel and Brand Loyalty We all have our favorite foods. But we don’t all agree on what those dishes or recipes are, thus the eternal discussions about foods and one of the...
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