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Memories

kids on a wagon

Playing it safe

By Carol Hall
November 18, 2020
Old vintage postcard and envelope with pen on table

Looking back on life through letters

By Carol Hall
July 24, 2020
A polio patient lies in an iron lung in March 1940. When polio weakened muscles used in breathing, the device assisted with respiration.

Remembering the polio epidemic

By Carol Hall
April 3, 2020
kid with plane

Life’s little moments

By Carol Hall
March 27, 2020
1950s housewife

‘Only’ a housewife?

By Carol Hall
February 27, 2020
majorette

Bring back the majorettes!

By Carol Hall
February 3, 2020
Sex and the Single Girl

A single woman’s manifesto

By Carol Hall
December 26, 2019
An ad in the September 1940 issue of Mademoiselle

The impossible allure of smoking

By Carol Hall
December 3, 2019
word tree

Child free, not childless

By Carol Hall
November 4, 2019
Bertha and Orville Hanson

Harboring a patriotic spirit

By Carol Hall
September 26, 2019
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