August • 2011 • NEWSLETTER

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Dear ##firstname[Friend]##,

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Summertime sometimes takes me back to the days of devouring adventure stories from dime store paperbacks under the shade of our family’s backyard trees. How I loved to drift away to another world through a good book and ultimately doze off on a lounge chair or hammock.

Now, I know it’s been a sultry summer, so we hope you’ve had the ability to stay cool inside and take a gander at the nostalgia we provide on the Web. As a reminder, we suggest you go online to fully enjoy our newly formatted newsletter. You can do so by clicking the link above in “Can’t view the images? Click here to see them.” In that way, you can use your back-arrow button for easy navigation. Stay cool out there!

—John Burlingham at Reminisce

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In this issue:

• Soldiers and Spies at York Beach
• Picture From the Past
• Grandpa Loved His Limburger
• My Off the Bookshelf
• My Most Embarrassing Moment
• Time Capsule Trivia
• A Thought to Remember

Soldiers and Spies at York Beach

By Stanley W. Wright
Waterford, Maine

As a young boy, I lived on Long Sands Road at York Beach, Maine, just before and during World War II. … York Beach was just across the road from our house, and since it was so close to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, we were in a prime area for an attack.

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Picture From the Past

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By Rev. Bob Tasler
Castle Rock, Colorado

I used to wonder about the baby boy my sister Marian is holding in this photo. She was still a young teenager at the time, so I knew it wasn’t one of her children.

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Grandpa Loved His Limburger

Cheese Wedges

By Ellen Colloca
Sarasota, Florida

When I was 9 years old, my grandparents lived at the top of a hill in a small town in northern New York. Every Saturday while Grandma took her afternoon nap, Grandpa and I would walk down the hill to a little store and buy sour cream and Limburger cheese.

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Looking for a quick and easy cheese hors d’oeuvre? Check out this simple, fast recipe from our friends at Taste of Home.

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Off the Bookshelf

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By John Burlingham
Senior Editor

Picture, if you will, a slightly bored state trooper pulling over a gleaming black Chrysler on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in midsummer 1953. As he bends down and peers inside the car, he immediately recognizes the couple as Harry and Bess Truman, until very recently the president and first lady of the United States. The trooper curses to himself and thinks, What am I gonna do now?

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My Most Embarrassing Moment

By Connie LaGrow
Cherokee, Oklahoma

In 1952, I was asked to join the Rainbow Girls after graduating from eighth grade. Mother had never belonged to Rainbow, a social organization, so she was pleased. The two of us planned a suitable outfit for my initiation.

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Time Capsule Trivia

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The decade of the 1960s was a tumultuous time of Vietnam War news, changing music and political unrest. See if you can guess the year we’re talking about from our list of five clues. Click here for the quiz.

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A Thought to Remember

An egoist is always me-deep in conversation.

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