Posts Tagged Uncles
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Our Bix Lives!
By Deb Williams Oakdale Memorial Gardens Blaring Band: Our Bix Lives! These words were the headlines in The Times Democrat on Friday August 6, 1971. It was the 40th anniversary of the death of Leon Bismark “Bix” Beiderbecke – and the birth of the Bix Jazz Festival. The Times article ...
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Grandparents Day – September 12th
By Mike Mickle On September 12th, we get the opportunity to celebrate Grandparent's Day. Welcome to September everyone! I hope you are getting used to the new faces popping up in the Publisher's Corner. Dave Deuth, Dan Adams and I are thrilled to be joining Eloise in this endeavor. We are pla...
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In and Out of the Quad Cities
Contributed by Gail McPike and Toni Hall I’ll be home for Christmas Remember good old Bing Crosby? In 1943 he earned is fifth gold record with a song that rang a chord with the American public. Almost immediately, the record shot to number one at USO’s all across the world, as soldie...
