Duchess Snowy Domain

Bayfield, Colorado - Thank goodness NW Okie left us Pugs at home while she ventured out in the 19F temperatures friday afternoon, in Durango, Colorado to view Durango's Snowdown Light Parade 2011. You can view NW Okie's Flickr Sideshow - Durango's Snowdown Parade by clicking this Link.

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Stella Friends Academy Class Roster

Alfalfa County, Oklahoma - The photo on the left is a photo of Stella Friends Academy pupils and teachers of 1904. The photo on the right is a copy of the old Stella Friends Academy (1893-1976) photo of what it looked liked in the old days. I wish I had a better photo, but I do not.

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McGill Family

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Home Comfort Range (1934) - Pies & Pastries

America - This week we bring you some information from our 1934 Home Comfort Cookbook and about Pies and Pastries back in that time period.

Among the classifications of our foods, Pastry was one of the easiest to make properly, and also, the easiest to make badly. Starch and fats are the source of muscular nourishment and energy, and when the flour and shortening in pastry are properly combined and baked, it is highly nutritious and readily digestible by even the more delicate systems.

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This Day In History (February 7)

America - On this day, February 7th, 1984, space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered spacewalk.

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Reply To: "Hi From Las Vegas NV"

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Aircraft Carrier: King of the Pacific

Ellis sent us this YouTube.com Video of WWII: Rare Color Film Aircraft Carrier in Pacific. It is a 16mm color (not colorized" footage that you many not have seen of carrier action in the Pacific. Not many color shots in the 1940's. Extremely expensive then, with a complicated and exacting processing process. [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

NW Okie's R & R - The Good Old Days of 1944

Bayfield, CO - This week we take you back to WWII with this photo on the left of the RTU (PR), 9 Sep. 1944, G116-26 grnd liaison officer. The officer in uniform on the far right, wearing sunglasses is my uncle, Robert Lee McGill.

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MAGILL Connection

Alison Duffy (Email: Alison.Duffy@tn.gov) left this comment on the GC-Gateway Rootsweb, McGill Rootsweb site. Alison says, "Mine (Magill/McGill family) came to America about 1745 from Antrim (Tillucairn?) area. So we may go back to late 1700's. My line descends from Robert Magill born Scotland 1600's.

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Oklahoma Facts

Did you know these interesting tidbits or Oklahoma Facts? Here are some facts about Oklahoma that we think you might not know.

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