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From: "Cathy Raber" <>
Subject: RE: [PD-LIFE] Crocheted Winter Hat
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 19:10:8 -0500



I
remember my when I was 8-9 my grandma Margaret gave me my two older
sisters, the crocheted tam, I think it's called. Wasn't much longer than
that she died of cancer. One of the last things she did for her three
granddaughters! I remember as a quiet, Loving grandma, us kids
always kissing her good-bye when we left her house.

I
sent x-mas card out to all her kids this year, asking if we could have a
reunion, me record the reunion. I hope they consider it. My
one uncle living in NY, retired last year, he's well-to-do, so he's pretty
set, sometimes saying he's been to the Bahamas, other exotic
places. Oh yes, there's another sister, but she already retired a few years
ago! My mom is the next one that could retire, but don't figure she
will for a couple more years! And the youngest just turned 50 some years
ago. There are two other sisters still working. I asked them to plan
it so I can record the events.


I'd like the opportunity to ask them all questions about their mother
father what their childhood was like being from pottery worker
parents. My grandfather, was a caster, retired from that same
job! But during his years, he did allot for the industry, helped
found the local baseball Complex in Eastern OH. He got to travel to
different places, like Orlando, FL, Canada, other places to conventions,
which they were thrilled to have the opportunity to go. ( I remember once
they went to a convention to Orlando, because they ended up bringing me animals
from Disney World).


Over the summer, when I visited my mother, she pulled out some papers with his
picture from the local paper, with his holding up the papers for the land that
the baseball complex was to be built, his name is on one of the
fields! My one aunt Linda has some video of him playing some others,
at Thanksgiving. All us kids, about 8-9 years old running around the
adults, preparing the tables! A happy time in my grandma's house.
have found out that near Thanksgiving was her birthday! That
makes the day or times I spent back then even more special. And they've
even got my gr. uncle Len, the only one I really got to know. I
sweet old man!

Oops, I got
carried away didn't I! Enjoy your X-mas! Cathy Raber



----- Original Message -----

From: Vee L. Housman


To:

Sent: 12/16/01 10:28:22 PM

Subject: [PD-LIFE] Cora Crocheted a
Dishcloth





Dear Group,



I just finished the dishes this evening and I have to tell you about
the

special dishcloth that I used to wash the dishes by hand. It was
a

Christmas dishcloth that was crocheted in red, green and white cotton
yarn

and I received it recently from Cora our 98-year-old Town
Historian. I had

seen her crocheting one up at the museum and let her know that I LOVE

crocheted dishcloths to wash my dishes with. She couldn't quite
believe

that I was sincere but after I had convinced her, she said that if I
stopped

by her house after the museum closed, she would give me one that she
had

already completed.



When I arrived, she had two of them out on her kitchen table and she let
me

take my pick. She was still skeptical about my enthusiasm for it
and I let

her know that when my dishwasher pooped out several years ago, I went
back

to the primitive way of washing dishes by hand. Hot soapy water
in the sink

with the dishes in it and a hot soapy dishcloth to wipe down the
countertop

thoroughly and properly. Wash the dishes, rinse them in very hot
water,

stack them in the dish drainer, and then when you feel up to it, dry
off

what's left of the water on the dishes and put them away in the
cupboard.

It's so much more satisfying than an automatic dishwasher.



Cora was born in the same year as my mother, 1903. However, Cora
was born

in March whereas Mother was born in December of 1903. Cora is
older than my

mother would have been but if Mother and Cora would have had the
opportunity

to sit down together at Cora's kitchen table, I'm certain that they
would

have enjoyed sharing memories of growing up in the early
1900s. Even though

Mother grew up in Pennsylvania and Cora grew up in New York, both of
them

learned how to crochet and I'm certain that Mother would have admired
my

brand new Christmas dishcloth. I know that I do. It's
a treasure.

vee







--- Cathy Raber

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