A THOUSAND MILES AWAY Author – Dorothy Cork First Published – 1978 Genre – Vintage Romance Setting – Quindalup, a hideaway near Ansell in the gorges of northwest Australia. Hero – Larry Sandfort, 35 year old entrepreneurial owner of a mining company and a sheep station called Mullamulla Downs. Heroine – Farrell Fitzgerald, a naïve… Continue reading Vintage Friday: 11 Kisses for A Thousand Miles Away
Category: Vintage Friday
Vintage recipes, culture, and images.
Vintage Friday: Be My Valentine 1958
Be My Valentine Do you recall the excitement back in elementary school of the annual valentine celebration? The idea was to exchange child-sized valentine cards with each person in your class. After your mother bought home a new package of cards for you, part of the fun was to choose a card for each of… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Be My Valentine 1958
Vintage Friday: Coca Cola Cake 1972
Welcome to the party! All the rage in the 1960s and 1970s, a coca cola cake is easy to make and includes a delicious icing that stiffens up and becomes candy-like as it sets. COCA COLA CAKE 2 cups plain flour 2 cups sugar 2 sticks butter 3 tablespoons cocoa 1 cup Coca Cola 1/2… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Coca Cola Cake 1972
Vintage Friday: Baa Baa Black Sheep 1731
Do you have special fun rituals you participate in with your children, grandchildren, or any of the little ones in your life? My husband was a great one for shoulder rides and rib tickles. My mother loved to form a pea-shelling circle and relate old family stories. I had an uncle who carried around packs… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Baa Baa Black Sheep 1731
Vintage Friday: Margie 1960
In 1960 television shows set in the Roaring Twenties enlivened the small screen. One of them featured teenagers as the main attraction, depicting the life of an exuberant high school girl named Margie. It was adapted from a 1946 movie starring Jeanne Crain. Like the later Patty Duke Show, Margie featured the main character’s family,… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Margie 1960
Vintage Friday: Aeschylus 525 BCE
Which do you prefer–the burning archaic vision of Aeschylus, the dramatic excellence of Sophocles, or the oddly modern sentiments of Euripides? Although I admire all of these dramatists, I confess the offerings of Aeschylus (525 BCE – 456 BCE) from time’s dim horizon energize and elevate me the most. Only seven of his seventy plus… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Aeschylus 525 BCE
Vintage Friday: Wayne Rogers in Stagecoach West 1960
This week we lost one of my favorite actors and people, Wayne Rogers, born William Wayne McMillan Rogers III on April 7, 1933 in Alabama. After graduating from Princeton with a degree in history followed by three years in the Navy, he caught the acting bug– lucky for his fans. Best known for his iconic… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Wayne Rogers in Stagecoach West 1960
Vintage Friday: It’s Your Music 1962
The Gypsy Rover has been a favorite song of mine for many years. I used to have a 45 I played over and over. On You Tube is a version featuring the fine sounds of the Irish band The Clancy Brothers and compiled by FairyBeliever16. Enjoy this frolicking folk tune! I bet you’ll be humming it the… Continue reading Vintage Friday: It’s Your Music 1962
Vintage Friday: Devil’s Food Cake 1967
Welcome to the party! Do you have a special birthday celebration that you remember especially fondly? Family and friends are what make it special. Please join me in celebrating my birthday with a tasty devil’s food cake and soulful ballad, not to mention some heart felt, blessed memories. I’m so pleased to have you here… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Devil’s Food Cake 1967
Vintage Friday: Old Time Candy 1905
These marvelous vintage recipes are from a public domain cookbook from 1905 entitled Sloan’s Cookbook and Advice to Housekeepers. Notice how these old recipes assume that the cook pretty much knows what she is doing. The recipes are not given in the step by step format we are accustomed to today. The variant spelling of… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Old Time Candy 1905