Philip E. Kaiser is the little boy standing on the stump
Kaiser Family
From Philip E. Kaiser
I am the little boy standing on the stump in the picture Kaiser Family in your May 2003 issue. A friend of mine gave me a clipping. I’d like to get a copy of that issue if possible. Please drop me a note as to how you came in possession of this photograph.
Reply
Thank you for contacting us and helping us to identify one of the photographs in our magazine. The photograph that you mentioned was found in a dumpster in Birdseye, Indiana back in 2003. We checked our files and could not find the original photograph, therefore it may have been donated to a member of the local historical society, however since you are the child in that photograph, if you will send us your postal mailing address, we will be happy to send you a copy of the May 2003 issue of our magazine along with a copy of the photograph.
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Green Tomato Jam
From lenoraapex@aol.com
If you have a recipe for green tomato jam, I would love it. Thank You
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Watermelon Rind Preserves
From Lacey
I just signed up as a member to your site. I love the recipes, however I am looking for tomato preserves and watermelon rind preserves. Can you help me?
Oh, by the way on your website is the first time I have ever located butter role that my grandmother use to make every Jan. 1st. We would have to take inventory at daddy’s general mercantile then go to granny’s for lunch.
Every year she made the butter role and no one has ever heard of it. She never wrote down the recipe. THANKS BUNCHES!!!!!!!
Reply:
We are glad that you are enjoying our website and that you found the butter rolls that you remember.
We are posting one of the recipes you requested in this issue of the magazine. So far, we have not been able to find a watermelon rind preserves but some of our readers might be able to help.
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Bread and Butter Pickles
From Tami Mudge
I have just recently acquired family recipes from my husbands family and am trying to understand what some of the ingredients and instructions are. I was so hoping that your site would be able to help me with this. I am looking for a bread and butter pickles recipe.
Reply:
If you will send us a list of the ingredients you can not find or do not understand and we will pass it along to several of our members that are old time cooks. We are also publishing a recipe for Bread & Butter Pickles in this issue.
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Lentz Genealogy Search
From James Duggan
I am searching for the birth family for my ancestress, Amanda G. Lentz, who was born Nov 12, 1810 in Pennsylvania. She and other Lentz family members migrated to Indiana about 1832, where she married John Flora and they raised their family in Union County. She could have been the daughter of Christopher and Margreta Gibb Lenz, who came from Germany.
Childrens names were Josephine, Wolney Pulaski, Sarah Catherine, Daniel Rice Boon, Margret Ann, Maryetta Isebell, and John Andrew Flora.
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Restaurants
From Milton Long
As far as the restaurants go, I think you should consider diners. So many people I have talked with say how much they miss the diners that used to be on the main highways. I think they prefabricate them and they can be moved. It is just an idea.
Second, a name for the diners could be Legacies Diners with the motto Old Fashion Food at Old Fashion Prices and a sign that says Coffee always 10 cents a cup. And how about Visit Our Diner and Get a Taste of the Past. You know, I can really get carried away with something like this. Keep me posted on your restaurant plans and don’t forget to have a big flag pole out front. Also, don’t forget our bikers and reserve a space for them. Don’t forget the lunch counter. This is important also. Good Luck and let me know if you need any more stories.
Reply:
We love your ideas, especially the name and the motto, Visit Our Diner and Get a Taste of the Past. As a result of your suggestions, we have already selected the name Legacy Diner and yes, we will have a large flag pole outside, room for bikes and a counter.
As you know, we will ALWAYS accept all the stories and memories you want to share with us.
Hopefully some day when you feel like taking a trip, you will come to Indiana and visit our diner and tell us some of your war stories in person. Thanks for your support and ideas.
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Volunteer Opportunities
From J. Branch Walton
Can you provide me with more information about volunteer opportunities such as locations, time required or expected, any training or orientation provided, desired background/experience of volunteers, etc. Do you have a phone number I can call for further information? Thanks.
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Reply:
Thank you for contacting us and offering to volunteer your time/services.
Time: The amount of time you volunteer is entirely up to you. It can be as little as 1/2 hour per month up to 40 hours per week.
Location: Currently, most of the volunteers work out of their own home, using their own computer, however we hope to have other alternatives available soon where chapters, (groups of members from the same town or county) will have access to a regular meeting place with computers available.
Training: Our training/orientation programs vary from videos on how to use certain computer programs to letters explaining the type of comments to keep or change when proofreading stories.
Contact Phone Numbers: Our home office will be relocating to a new building within the next several weeks and we will post our new phone number on our website as soon as it becomes available. In the meantime, you can email us with any additional questions or comments.
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Enola Gay Pilot A Real WWII Hero
From LTC Milton J. Long
On August 9th in 1945, a specially outfitted B-29 named Enola Gay, flown by Colonel Paul Tibbetts, released a bomb, code named Little Boy. This historic event that fateful day over Hiroshima, spawned the Atomic Age and brought America its long awaited victory.
On Monday, August 9th, 2004 General Paul Tibbetts spoke to our group of veterans at the Upper Arlington Senior Center in Columbus Ohio. He is slight in build but big in his desire to serve his country. To be in the company of this great hero was something I find hard to describe, but an honor none the less. General Tibbetts does not make a lot of personal appearances but this one was really appreciated.
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August History
From Bob Miller
It was on August 13, 1940 that Germany began to bomb England during World War II, beginning the Battle of Britain. France had just been conquered, and Germany’s plan was to destroy Great Britain’s Royal Air Force before it began a land invasion of the country.
The British had the most advanced radar systems in the world, which helped them shoot down many of the German bombers, but by the middle of August they had lost a quarter of their planes. The British pilots were flying so many missions a day that as soon as they landed they fell asleep in their cockpits. Churchill said, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
Everything changed on August 24th, when a German bomber accidentally bombed London. Britain responded by bombing Berlin. Hitler was so angry that he ordered his air force to bomb London exclusively, turning his attention away from the Royal Air Force. Historians say that if Hitler had focused on destroying the Royal Air Force, he probably would have won the battle.
Instead, the British weathered the bombing raids until the United States could join the war, and the Germans were eventually defeated.
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Bees Wax
Many years ago, personal hygiene left much room for improvement. As a result, many women and men had developed acne scars by adulthood. The women would spread bees wax over their facial skin to smooth out their complexions.
When they were speaking to each other, if a woman began to stare at another woman’s face she was told mind your own bees wax.
Should the woman smile, the wax would crack, hence the term crack a smile.
Also, when they sat too close to the fire, the wax would melt and therefore the expression---losing face.
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Published in U S Legacies Magazine August 2005
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