Wedding Handkerchief – Treasure Chest Thursday

February 11, 2010

Delicate, embroidered and lacey! Ottie carried this handkerchief on October 1, 1930 when she married Claude Brown. Typically, wedding handkerchiefs …

Framed for Life

February 8, 2010

In 1925, after her father died, Ottie Rury quit school to go to work at Woolworth’s in Enid, Oklahoma. It …

December 27, 2009

We had a white Christmas here in Oklahoma, with a record breaking 14″ of snow. Everyone in my family was …

December 24, 2009

Couples bring traditions from their families into a marriage and some of those remain while others get modified or eliminated. …

December 23, 2009

Just three months after we married we had our first Christmas together. We received a ‘first Christmas’ ornament as a …

December 22, 2009

Christmas–that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may …

December 21, 2009

When I was quite young my mother sang the song Sleep, Holy Child at church. Apparently I liked it, because …