My Trails into the Past

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has a new assignment for us: 1)  Did you join a youth organization such as Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Camp Fire, Job's Daughters, for example? 2)  Tell us about it in a blog post of your own, in a comment on this blog, or in a Facebook post . Actually, this theme I had suggested several months ago and he acknowledged that. When we lived in Pittsburg, California, I was in Blue Birds. I don’t know when I joined, probably in second or third grade. I have no photos of me during this time, but I do remember wearing the blue uniforms and having meetings where we did crafts. When we moved to Walnut Creek during my third grade year, I didn’t join a group. Perhaps there were no Blue Birds or Campfire in town. During fifth grade, several of my school friends were in Girl Scouts. I begged my mother to let me join. I really enjoyed Junior...

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has another great topic this week. Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to: 1) Remember when you were 12 years old? On a summer day out of school? What memory do you have of fun activities? 2) Tell us about that memory (just one - you can do more if you want to) in a blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a comment on Facebook.  Please leave a link to your own post in comments on this post. 3)  Have you told your children and grandchildren about your childhood memories?  You really should. It was 1966 when I was 12. In that summer, I had just finished up 6th grade at Parkmead Elementary in Walnut Creek, California, and we had a whole summer before starting 7th grade at Parkmead Intermediate, which was located right next door to the elementary school. A typical summer was breakfast of cereal that we served ourselves. Then outside to play until called for lunch, when...

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has another great assignment. Here is our assignment: 1) Remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and in fifth grade at school? Was that one of the best times in your life? Or not? 2) Tell us about your fifth grade memories and the highlights of that time of your life - in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or on Facebook or Google+. I attended Parkmead Elementary in Walnut Creek, California for fifth grade. Mrs. Griffin was our teacher and she was the hardest teacher I ever had. She hated our handwriting and made us re-learn cursive all over with all of the exercises. She was also one of those teachers who seemed to have eyes in the back of her head. I think we wore her out because she retired after our school year! But the best part of 5th grade was joining Junior Girl Scouts. I was part of Troop 374. [1] We met once a week in the Kindergarten room and our leaders, Mrs. Bailey & Mrs. Hanson, were teachers, I think (though ...

I'm with my brother, Steve.  I think this is end of 5th grade. Today, March 12, 2012 is the 100th Anniversary of the founding of Girl Scouts of the USA by Juliette Gordon Low.  I joined Girl Scouts in the 5th grade in the fall of 1964.  Our troop met in the kindergarten room at Parkmead Elementary School in Walnut Creek on Thursdays after school and our leaders were teachers.  In those days, the troops were multi-grade.  Junior Girl Scouts were 4th, 5th and 6th grade.  I don't remember the girl's name who asked me to join the troop but I sure had a lot of fun. Hiawatha A few things I remember doing in Girl Scouts: earning badges, learning folk dancing and attending a festival, camping at Bothin in Marin County, camping in Sonora, backpacking, hiking up Mt. Diablo and camping, camping with skunks, having a tea party with our mothers, reciting the poem Hiawatha, and going to the state capital. I was in Girl Scouting for just four years: two yea...