War and Bigotry!
La Porte, IN Courthousepostcard Fred sent to his family In the post, Explosive News, we heard that my dad, Fred, a chemist, quit his job with Lanteen to make almost double the salary as a blasting powder blender [...]
New Year’s Eve, 1941 “Damn mad at Fred”
Lil Koroschetz’s diary entry, 12/31/1941 Last week I posted Lil’s entries into the new diary she had started on the eve of 1942, three weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into World War II. If you’d [...]
Pearl Harbor Day—A diarist’s response to war
December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor was bombed seventy years ago today. My mom, Lillian Koroschetz, started a brand new diary on New Year’s Eve, 1941 reflecting back on the previous year and the effects the barely three-week-old war was already [...]
Trouble in Paradise—Love and War
All is not well on the Lil and Fred front. Lil meets another fellow who gets into serious contention with Fred for Lil’s affections. (To start at the beginning of Lil’s charming diary posts about her budding romance with Fred [...]
Blitzbuggy—A Car with History
Model A Ford-1929 (See Blitzbuggy below)credit: Hubcapcafe.com It’s Carnival of Genealogy (CoG) again, the monthly opportunity for genealogy bloggers to ponder a specific topic—and for April it’s cars. Thanks to Jasia at Creative Gene for hosting CoG. Blitzbuggy. For those [...]