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For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 Mrs.

Each generation of citizens in our country is tethered together by the major events that occurred during their developmental years. For our eldest population, those considered to be from the Greatest or Silent Generations, a couple of those events were the Great Depression and World War II.

For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 Putter and I had a delightful weekend… we spent most of Saturday morning at Wynn Park where the Bike-athon for St.

If you don’t think life is amazing, consider the fact that you are sitting on a large rock orbiting the Sun in a galaxy called The Milky Way. And this rock, we call Earth, also rotates creating our days and nights.

For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 Putter had company the other evening… not me… they were there strictly to see him.

For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 It’s that time of the year… time for the youngsters to busy themselves outside each day after school until dark runs them in… I suppose it is still like that.

Sometimes you don’t know who you are and what you stand for until you are forced to fight for it. Right now we are in a fight for our democracy.

For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 Well, I am a year older than I was this time last year but can’t tell any difference… yet! It was fun day, starting with friend Evelyn Barnhill Lepard getting me out of bed to answer the telephone very early… and from then on, I was on the telephone numerous times, talking with most of my family, including cousins.

Where I come from a man’s ball cap is his calling card. His brand. It is a staple. Above the functional bill generally indicates what he supports. It could be a business, politician, a school, sports team or motto. Much like the physical state of a child’s stuffed animal, the rough condition of a ball cap indicates how well loved it is by its owner. If the wearer is a gentleman, he knows to remove it during prayer, at the dinner table, in the church pew and during the Pledge of Allegiance. When I was a young girl it was generally said that a man should take his hat off indoors. Men rarely do that anymore. Women wear ball caps today as well. I personally own several. In addition to the aforementioned situations, in the old days, it was customary for a gentleman to remove his hat when entering someone’s home, inside public buildings, such as a courthouse or school, the movies, during the National Anthem, when being introduced to someone, and any instance in the presence of our flag. Our etiquette about quite a few things has loosened over the years.

The sterile waiting room held a room of ten veterans waiting patiently to be called to their doctor appointments. The conversation was passionate despite the room’s dull décor, posters on the tan walls denoting available health programs as a television, largely ignored, played a benign slide of veteran services silently on the wall.