Celebrating 150 Years of the City of Corning & Clay County in 2023 Going to Corning Picnic, 1918... Etta Mallott, Licking, Missouri sent the above picture to the Courier and said that it was taken at the Corning picnic in 1918.
led to believe it was an honor, when in realty all it meant was that after we served the food and cleared away the dishes, we were allowed to sit at a distance and take in all the action… I made up my mind right then and there that I was never going to go through any such performance… I didn’t know yet just how I would get out of it, but I knew for sure that no one could hog-tie me and get me to wear one of those long-tailed dresses and high heeled shoes and willingly spend a night of misery. I got out of it my junior year by convincing my parents that it was a complete waste of money (which too was to me) to buy all those fancy clothes which I would never again wear when we needed that money for so many other things. By the time I was a Senior we had been at war for some time, and it was the least of my parents’ worries about whether I went to a prom… they were worried about my brothers, brother-in-law, uncle and 21 cousins who were scattered all over the world, fighting for freedom. So, I got out of the prom in my Senior year even easier than my Junior year. Had I not gone to the Prom when I was a 10th grader and seen what it was all about, I might have been talked into attending even though I was somewhat of an odd ball… I didn’t wear paint and powder or fingernail polish, I hated high heel shoes, I wasn’t about to be caught outside the house in a dress of material so thin you could see through it, and I was so near tone deaf that I not only couldn’t dance, I didn’t even want to… I was more interested in those throw lines that my dad and I had set out in the ditch between Staley Lake and Corning Lake, hoping to hook a big old catfish. That’s the way it was and that’s the way it still is, I’m just what I am!
This column was originally published on May 7, 2020 and has been edited slightly from its original publication. The fragrant smell of peonies in the air lets me know that Mother’s Day is near.
Celebrating 150 Years of the City of Corning & Clay County in 2023 First Graders, 1954-1955... Mrs.
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 1989 Take my word for it… artificial sweeteners may not kill a person, but they sure can cause hours of misery if that person happens to be allergic to them.
“I didn’t know he had it in him.” How many times have you heard this statement after someone earned an achievement? When a young Bruce Springsteen attended school as a boy in Freehold, New Jersey, he felt he didn’t fit inside the box. He said in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning a few years ago, “I was probably one of the smartest kids in my class at the time.
Celebrating 150 Years of the City of Corning & Clay County in 2023 Cotton Pickers... Mrs.
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 1989 The warm Spring weather has brought about a concerned effort by the credit card people to get folks signed u and they all want you to sign up right quick, within just a matter of days, before you have too much time to think about it.
In the coming weeks, high school seniors across the country will don caps and gowns and proudly walk across a stage to receive a diploma in the culmination of a 13-year goal that has taken the support of many people along the way in order to achieve it. Seniors, your family, in particular, has been with you every step of the way and I hope you thank them.
Celebrating 150 Years of the City of Corning & Clay County in 2023 Going to Sell for $1.00 . .