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From: "Deborah Hammer" <>
Subject: Re: [NEPLATTE] family gathering
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:36:11 -0600
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I also enjoy the old stories......
Thanks for sharing them with our group.
Please share more if you have them!


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Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 7:02 PM
Subject: [NEPLATTE] family gathering


> Hi All,
>
> I just came back from a family gathering of my female cousins and my two
> aunts who were born and raised in Platte County- I taped all the old
> stories
> they told and I got a chance to ask some questions about growing up - one
> of the
> questions I asked was "What did you use for toilet paper?" - They told me
> catalogs - I asked them if they ever used corn cobs and they said no -
> they had
> a shed tha they threw the corn cobs into - my aunt said my dad and another
> brother used to throw them at her when she was sent out to help them -
> they
> said the corn cobs were dried and used as fire starters in the winter
> time - I
> asked what happened if they run out of catalogs and they said they used
> other
> paper or leaves -
>
> My aunt also told how when they were little and the snow got really deep
> in
> the winter time - grandpa would hitch up the horses to the wagon and
> grandma
> would put warm blankets in the back of the wagon for them and the
> neighbors
> who lived further away would show up on horseback with their kids and
> they
> would all crowd into the back of the wagon and grandpa would take them
> all to
> school picking up other kids along the way - someone who lived close to
> the
> school would have the steps all shoveled off and someone else would have
> started
> a fire and warmed up the building - and that recess time was spent in the
> basement as it was to cold and the snow was to deep for them to go
> outside - in
> the afternoon grandpawould show up with the wagon and haul them all home
> again - and that the neighbors who had brought their kids over on
> horseback would
> be there waiting for their kids to arrive so they could take them back
> home
> again. they said the only time they ever missed school was during
> blizzards
> - that it didnt matter how deep the snow got - they went to school -
>
> just thought I would share this bit of history with you -
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