Preserving Old Photographs
From Franklin T. Wike, Jr.
One of the most important and vital services that U.S. Legacies offers is the FREE scanning of old photographs. Now that we have our FIRST permanent location, we will be placing computers and scanners in our Rockport, Indiana location and encouraging EVERYONE that does not have a computer or scanner to bring in their old family photographs. We will scan your photographs FREE and place a copy of the digital image on our website. That way, in the event a fire, flood or any other disaster destroy the original images, you will be able to go to our website and print out as many copies as you want or need.
As a side note, we would also like to mention the need for at least 5 volunteers that know how to scan photographs or are willing to learn how and are willing to come by our Rockport location to help us with these images.
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Fruit and Feather Cake
From Rose
Trying to find old southern recipe for "Fruit and Feather" cake. My mother talks about her grandmother making it back in the 30's and I'd like to find the recipe for her as a surprise.
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Life Before Plastic
From Karen
My husband and I are trying to live simply and get back to old ways. After breakfast I was packing his lunch and wondered how foods were packed before plastic wrap and containers.
Could anyone pass on how this was handled?
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Life Before Plastic Reply
From Franklin T. Wike, Jr.
I can remember my mother using wax paper to wrap my sandwiches, then placing them into a brown paper bag. We were taught to fold up and save the wax paper and bag, so they could be used again, but sometimes I would end up using the old wax paper at the school playground. We would sit on them and then slide down the "slides." The wax off the paper would make the slides slippery so that we could go faster.
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Life Before Plastic Reply
From William H. Gieske, Jr.
That’s how I remember it. Wax paper was all we had and brown paper bags. You reused them as much as you could. The only plastic stuff was Bakelite which was brittle and not near like today's plastic. I remember chicken feed coming in print bags that could be used to make dresses. Ice boxes not refrigerators that did not keep food as long as now and the food did not have near as much in preservatives in it.
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John McRoberts of Vermont
From Barbara Duncan Mathies
My Revolutionary War ancestor was John McRoberts of Vermont. He married Lucy Bradford was descended from William Bradford, the first elected Governor of Plymouth Colony. If anyone has additional information on John and Lucy or is related to them, please contact me.
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Veteran's Benefits
From Ken
I am researching information on Veteran's Benefits. I want to compare the benefits offered to Veterans of the two big wars, as to what was offered to Veterans of the Korean War and the Vietnam War and then to the Veterans today. Is there a side-by-side list that you know of, or is there some place I can go to compile a comparative list?
Thanks much for your help,
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WWII Weddings
From Tina and April
Thank you all, each and everyone. Reading your replies were so sweet and really moved me....
I have no family left that could answer my question about the type of foods served at WWII weddings, so I looked to you for such a simple question I guess. But each one gave me their words that I feel came from the heart of memories and I really appreciate it.
My daughter is going to marry a soldier from the branch of ARMY, he just came home from IRAQ and Germany. They met on the Internet a year ago This will be the first military wedding on either side of our families. It's been a thrill planning it around the 40's era.
My daughter April, picked a dress with the look of the 40's and so she and Ryan (soon to be son-in-law) are planning a wedding downtown Indianapolis at the military park and recreation center to be held at union station if all goes well. There might be a problem with the date. If so, then off to Fort Harrison in Indianapolis. Did anyone serve there by chance?
Ryan asked April for her hand in marriage at the military park and the wedding date has been set for May 20th which happens to be armed forces day!
April has the hair style planned for herself and the girls. Now she has ideas about the food, thanks to you all. If anyone else has any suggestions we would be grateful for them and consider them an honor to look them over and possibly use some on such a special day.
Friends keep the stories alive and I want you to know from the bottom of our hearts....my family thanks each and everyone of you or yours that did their part in keeping this GREAT COUNTRY of ours FREE!!!
God Bless you all,.
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Reply From John Meagher
Waller Texas
Glad and proud to have been one of the many that answered ! (My parents were married February 22nd, 1942).
I hope they have a wedding (and marriage) that just knocks their socks off !
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Reply From Howard Ellis
I can't help wondering whose recipe recommendation won out for use in the WWII wedding reception menus.
That does enlighten me to comment that the former Ingrid Ilse Pietz and former TSgt. Howard A. Ellis, U.S. Air Force, celebrated their 53rd wedding anniversary on Monday, July 25 and their 106th wedding anniversary on Tuesday, July 26.
I know, I know, most of you have endured this before...but what the H...? Ingrid and I were civil-ceremony married in the office of the Standessamt (justice of the peace) of Eichkamp in West Berlin on July 25, 1952 and were married the next day, July 26, 1952, by the Lutheran Chaplain in the chapel at Tempelhof Air Field. So we always amuse ourselves that we therefore can share TWO WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES per year...hence, 106.
Ingrid and I met actually, on Oct. 16, 1949 while I was an army corporal assigned to HedCom Berlin Command during the Russian blockade of West Berlin (I was there from February 1949 to February 1950). She turned down my first proposal of marriage and I got ticked off and at the end of my duty tour there returned home and civilianized...got a job as a mail clerk at General Foods Corp. sales division in St. Louis, Mo.) But she relented after dozens of pleading letters from me and then our reunion was interrupted in 1950 by the Korean War because I was, by then, an Air Force weekend warrior who'd made it to TSgt., and got flagged for active duty and assigned to an Arizona base.
It took me two years to get marriage-authorization due to the usual personnel division snafu's...but we finally got there...and I hope our five "kids" and their "kids" appreciate it.
HEY, got a silly question, for you long-time marrieds out there. How many of you actually remember THE EXACT DATE YOU MET YOUR SPOUSE? I solved the problem, 'cause the inside of my ages-old wedding ring bears the inscription, "IIE - HAE - Oct. 16, '49"...after all, there'd never have been a wedding date if there hadn't been THAT first date?
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Reply From Bernie
Let me know if you want wedding pictures. Ours will be the 60th next year.
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Reply From Milton Long
2006 will be the 60th anniversary for a lot of us that got married after we got home. Why don't we all send U.S. Legacies a wedding photo and a short note about our wedding. I bet they would like that.
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Reply From Howard Ellis
The idea from Milt Long sounds like a good piece of goods for the magazine. If I can be so bold? What do you think I know Ingrid and I would enjoy and surely many others would too.
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Response from Franklin T. Wike, Jr.
You folks had a great idea so we are asking everyone of our readers that have been married 50+ years, to send us wedding photos and anniversary photographs along with a story about how/where you met, a few "nice" comments about the places you went on dates and what the secret is to staying married for so many years.
We are starting this out with a story in this issue titled, Then and Now.
Published in U S Legacies Magazine September 2005
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