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WEEKLY NEWS HISTORICAL ANECDOTES (by Topic)Description
BIOGRAPHIES
Steam Car People
4/16/07 Augustus Post (1873-1952)
7/16/07 Weldin V. Stumpf (1922-1990)
10/22/07 Leroy Benge, Sr. (1903-1982)
11/10/08 Norbert L. Behrendt (1917-1980)
1/12/09 Frank H. Gardner (1920-2004)
9/7/09 Raymond W. Stanley (1894-1985)
11/30/09 C. E. Simmons (1880-1979) and the Washington (DC) Steam Car Group
2/8/10 Thomas T. Ackerman (1940-2010)
5/31/10 Marvin W. Klair (1913-2007)
9/13/10 Morris Paley (1922-2010)
12/27/10 James Melton (1904-1961)
4/2/12 The Broader Steam Car Community, In Memoriam
9/10/12 Carl S. Amsley (1921-1998)
9/17/12 L. Edward Pamphilon (1910-1964)
3/11/13 Stanley Owner/Operators in the 1940s
3/24/14 Ole B. Vikre, Jr. (1919-2001)
8/22/16 Earle S. Eckel (1891-1978)
Trapshooters
8/3/09 Leo H. Shaab (c.1884- c.1959)
2/1/10 Palmer D. “Pete” Guest (1889-1941)
6/20/10 Arthur A. Fink (c.1878-c. 1960)
10/4/10 Clarence L. Walker (1875-1964)
3/21/11 Stevenson Morris Crothers (1887-c.1978)
5/16/11 Henry McComb Winchester (1891-1966)
8/8/11 Joseph F. Hiestand (1906-2005)
4/30/12 Walter M. Grace (1893-1951)
9/12/11 The Masons of Longwood
5/16/16 John and Lee Minnick, father and son
8/29/16 Alden B. Richardson (1871-1916)
11/7/16 Doc and Ned (Lilly)
4/3/17 Charles W. Jenkins (1893-1977)
5/14/18 Lela Hall (c. 1905- c. 1985)
Marshall-Shallcross Greater Family
9/19/05 J. Warren Marshall (1881-1953)
5/15/06 Esther Marshall and her branch of the Shallcross family
10/30/06 The Marshalls of Marshallvale Farm
5/14/07 Esther Shallcross Marshall (1885-1979)
8/10/09 The Piersons of Southwood Road
8/30/10 Anna Marshall Mancill (1883-1986)
1/31/11 Alan Marshall Mancill (1924-1945)
2/7/11 James T. Shallcross (1847-1911)
3/26/12 James T. Shallcross, Jr. (1879-1972)
4/6/15 Eleanor Marshall Reynolds (1924-1999)
9/21/15 Wills Passmore, I and II
10/26/15 Eugene S. Ferguson (1916-2004)
12/14/15 Mitchell Reunions
10/3/16 Bassett Ferguson (1878-1961)
11/28/16 Norman Clarence Mancill (1914-1988)
11/5/18 Mary E. Shallcross (1852-1944)
11/19/18 Israel W. Marshall (1850-1911)
12/3/18 Thomas Elwood Marshall (1855-1929)
Other Biographies
4/4/05 The life of Eliza Peterson (1906-2005)
7/4/05 Clifford Murray (1896-1981) tribute (repeated 6/2/14)
12/26/05 “Bate” Dennis and his work around Yorklyn, 1900-1935
7/3/06 Tribute to Ida Murray (1866-1953)
10/1/07 Jacob Noznesky of Kennett Square (1876-1950)
3/17/08 G. Whitney Snyder (1921-1998)
9/1/08 James H. Wagenhorst (1870-c.1956)
10/6/08 Joyce L. Nickerson (1933- )
10/27/08 Juliet Mace Pyle (c. 1902-c.1980)
3/30/09 Floyd Clymer, 1895-c.1975)
6/8/09 Katharine H. Wright (1909-1999)
12/28/09 Norman Rockwell, (1894-1978)
3/29/10 Will Rogers (1879-1935)
4/5/10 Jacob J. Lafferty (1903-1975)
8/29/11 George W. Pusey (1868-1943) (Also covered 2/1/16)
10/3/11 M. J. “Jerry” Duryea (c.1895-1956)
11/14/11 The Walkers of Baltimore
7/23/12 Einstein, Wiener, and Hitchcock
1/21/13 Stan the Man (Musial) (c.1921-2013)
9/2/13 William G. Carr (1920-1957)
1/27/14 Henry Austin Clark, Jr. (c.1920-c.1990)
2/10/14 Howard G. Henry (1916-1997)
6/2/14 Clifford W. Murray (1896-1981) Repeat of 7/4/05
6/9/14 J. Roy Magargal (1892-1972)
9/22/14 Richmond P. Miller (1902-1972)
5/4/15 William E. Swigart, Jr. (1913-c. 2000)
2/1/16 George W. Pusey (1868-1943) (Also covered 8/29/11)
7/11/16 Walter S. Lumley, Jr. (1922-2000)
10/10/16 Robert B. Claytor (1922-1990)
11/14/16 Arthur Harmon (1882-1942)
1/9/17 Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974)
2/20/17 Frank W. Diver (1895-1976)
10/30/17 Ernie Pyle (1900-1945) and Jules Reiver (1916-2004)
12/4/17 Jonathan J. Roberts (c. 1927-c. 1999)
12/11/17 Curtis L. Blake (1917- )
1/15/18 Walter W. Anderson (1921-2010)
4/23/18 Barbara Bush (1925-2018)
6/4/18 The Dorlanders of Chester County
6/25/18 Rascob, Robinson, and Duffy
9/17/18 William Penn (1644-1718)
LOCAL HISTORY
Auburn Heights Property
3/21/05 Shutters Falling over, 1897
6/1/05 Early additions to Auburn Heights property
7/25/05 Original building of Auburn Heights, 1896-97
9/12/05 Auburn Heights’ old kitchen (1897-1934), and the “new”
10/31/05 Hallowe’en and 1988 improvements to A.H.
3/6/06 Esther Marshall’s rock gardens, 1930s
7/10/06 The water supply at Auburn Heights (see also 10/28/13)
7/24/06 The Flag Pole at Auburn Heights (see also 4/1/13)
8/21/06 The beginnings of the Auburn Valley R.R.
8/28/06 History of the “Auburn Valley,” 1971 to present
10/7/06 The building of the Shop, 1937
2/5/07 Cold Winter of ’34, and new Kitchen-Recreation Room
11/19/07 Spring Cleaning at Auburn Heights, 1930s
12/17/07 Electric Trains at Auburn Heights
6/16/08 Summer at Auburn Heights, 1914
12/15/08 The Meadow below Auburn Heights
2/14/11 Occupants of tiny West Yorklyn Station, 1930s
8/13/12 The Pullman Cars on the Auburn Valley R.R.
4/1/13 The Flagpole at Auburn Heights (Repeat of 7/24/06)
10/28/13 Not Inventions but Innovations (including water supply from spring)
11/4/13 Second Floor of Carriage House at Auburn Heights
12/23/13 Christmas Lights of Years Ago
12/30/13 Clarence Marshall’s New Shop, 1937 (Partial Repeat of 10/7/06)
5/26/14 Refrigeration at Auburn Heights
12/22/14 Decorating for “Old Fashioned Christmas” at Magic Age of Steam, 1971-1977
11/30/15 Electric Trains at Auburn Heights
2/22/16 The Copper Beech at Auburn Heights
6/6/16 The Front Porch at Auburn Heights
12/26/16 The Pullman Cars on the Auburn Valley (Partial Repeat of 8/13/12)
1/30/17 Renovations of our 1937 Shop
3/20/17 How Auburn Heights became a State Park Preserve
10/8/18 Winter Storm at Auburn Heights, February 6, 1978
Trapshooting at Yorklyn
8/29/05 Trapshooting from 1914; founding of Yorklyn Gun Club, 1921
10/17/05 Description of trapshooting program at Yorklyn, 1921-1950
12/5/05 Where the shooters stayed and where they ate when attending Marshall tournaments
2/20/06 Night shooting at the Yorklyn Gun Club
4/10/06 Supplies required for Yorklyn Gun Club, mostly shooters’ ammunition
8/11/08 Celebrities at Yorklyn
8/24/09 A Summer Evening on Gun Club Hill
8/2/10 The big trapshooting week at Yorklyn
4/18/11 Mining the Lead on Gun Club Hill
8/15/11 This Time of the Year
6/24/13 Fathers and Sons
8/4/14 The End of the Yorklyn Gun Club
10/12/15 Trapshooting Trophies of the Past
10/19/15 Men’s Pocket Watches
8/8/16 The Week Just Past on Gun Club Hill
Local Industry
8/23/05 Early “Yorklyn” Garretts and the founding of the snuff business, 1782
9/26/05 J. Homer Kratz and the founding of National Fibre & Insulation Co., 1904
10/10/05 Evolution of Marshall Brothers Paper Mill (on Benge Road) (See also 1/11/10)
11/28/05 The building of the Insulite Mill, 1900-1901
1/16/06 Many uses of the office in #1 Fibre Mill, Yorklyn
4/3/06 The Yorklyn “Tape Mill” (Lower Snuff Mill), 1845-1964
9/4/06 Mill Whistles and Smoke
7/30/07 Small businesses and Samuel E. Cooper
11/12/07 Yorklyn in the News (NVF and W & W R.R.)
11/9/09 The Modern History of Yorklyn
1/11/10 The Mill below Auburn Heights (See also 10/10/05)
6/7/10 Residents of Auburn Mills, early 20th century
11/29/10 The Railroad in Yorklyn
1/30/12 The Mills on Red Clay Creek (first half)
2/6/12 The Mills on Red Clay Creek (second half)
7/22/13 American Roads Machinery Corporation
2/16/15 The Marshall Boys in 1912
4/20/15 Managers of National Vulcanized Fibre Company, 1930s
4/11/16 The Smoke Stack at the Big Mill (Yorklyn)
5/30/16 The Snuff Mills of Yorklyn
6/20/16 The Modern History of Yorklyn (Repeat of 11/9/09)
5/28/18 Tobacco
Local Events with Antique Cars
5/2/05 Stanley Mountain Wagon and March of Dimes, Wilmington, early 1950s
6/25/07 Story of 2007 Eastern Steam Car Tour at Auburn Heights
9/17/07 Funny Old Cars and Parades
9/24/07 Early Regions of A A C A
6/30/08 Movie Companies and Our Cars
3/9/09 Robert Shackne and our Stanley Model H-5
9/6/10 Early A A C A Annual Meetings
10/22/12 Happy Halloween (Greggs and Mountain Wagon)
5/13/13 Fun with our Mountain Wagon, Part I
5/20/13 Fun with our Mountain Wagon, Part II
7/7/14 Packard Twin Six Clover Leaf Roadster
6/11/18 Funny Old Cars and Parades
Special Events at Auburn Heights
12/19/05 Christmas, 1929, at Auburn Heights
8/14/06 Two Lawn Parties, 1939 and 1955
12/18/06 Christmas, 1934, at Auburn Heights
1/1/08 Holiday parties at Auburn Heights, past and present
5/26/08 Meta, He’s Beautiful!
11/24/08 Sunday Evening Musicales, 1930s
12/6/10 Christmas at Auburn Heights, 1929 (Repeat from 12/19/05)
12/13/10 Christmas at Auburn Heights, 1934 (Repeat from 12/18/06)
12/20/10 Christmases after World War II
12/19/11 Christmas, 1935, at Auburn Heights
10/29/12 The Shallcross Reunion, 1987
2/18/13 Treasure Hunts of Years Ago
5/2/16 Sunday Evening Musicales, 1930s (Repeat of 11/24/08)
12/19/16 Christmas, 1935, at Auburn Heights (Repeat of 12/19/11)
7/16/18 Eastern Steam Car Tour at Auburn Heights, 2018
New Cars Owned by the Marshalls
3/7/05 Clarence Marshall’s first cars, 1904-1907
3/14/05 Clarence Marshall’s 1908 Model K Stanley in 1910
10/16/06 The “Big Cars,” 1924-1937 Packards
2/26/07 The First Cars I Remember at Auburn Heights (1930s)
8/20/07 Big Cars of the 1930s
1/5/09 The Cars Esther (Marshall) Drove
9/21/09 The Cars Anna Drove
11/16/09 The Trucks at Auburn Heights
4/26/10 The First Trip in our ’37 Packard
12/5/11 Packards at Auburn Heights, 1927-1937
1/9/12 Packards at Auburn Heights, 1937-1946
3/25/13 Servicing Packard cars, 1930s
6/10/13 A Pinto Electric Conversion (1983-1989)
12/1/14 Packards and Pin Cushions
8/6/18 The earliest new cars I can remember, 1920s
Auburn Heights People and Their Adventures
3/28/05 Clarence Marshall and early AACA (1941-1956)
4/25/05 “Tad” and his steamboat, about 1900
5/23/05 Early Marshalls at Auburn Heights, 1897- ?
6/13/05 Elizabeth C. Marshall and excursions on the “Republic,” early 1900s
8/1/05 World War II Tenants in 3rd-Floor Apartment
9/5/05 Train Trips to School (c. 1900), PRR tour 1899, and Buffalo 1901
10/24/05 Train trip to Poland Spring, ME, 1910
11/7/05 Clarence Marshall and Early Photography, 1897-
12/12/05 Poem “Sand,” and T.C.M., Sr. and Jr.
2/27/06 Wild rides on Wilm. & Western R.R. (B & O branch) circa 1902
3/13/06 The five “Jays” (Lifelong Friends of Esther Marshall)
5/1/06 B & O trip to Hockessin & Annapolis, 1949
6/5/06 1936 Trip to Nova Scotia and Gaspe Peninsula in ’34 Packard
9/18/06 Weldin V. Stumpf and Auburn Heights
10/23/06 1941 West Coast Trip in ’37 Packard
11/20/06 Thanksgiving in Boston, 1942
12/4/06 Using Stanleys for More Than Transportation
12/26/06 Christmas, 1933, at Grandmother Shallcross’s Home
1/1/07 Woman’s Suffrage and Early Family Letters
1/15/07 1913 Stanley Mountain Wagon at Gettysburg
6/4/07 The Year 1937
6/11/07 Projects in the New Shop, Late 1930s
10/8/07 The Summer of 1930
2/11/08 The Hay Diet, 1930s
4/21/08 Trips to Rehoboth, 1930s
8/18/08 A Trip to Atlantic City, 1921
9/15/08 Clarence Marshall’s Picture Shows
10/20/08 Adventures with Delaware License #8
4/13/09 Easter Sunday, 1926-1939
7/5/10 The Glorious Fourth (TCM recollections)
8/23/10 Three Days in June, 1935
1/3/11 Converting a Packard to Steam
6/27/11 The Long Days of June (and Israel W. Marshall)
11/7/11 Southern Pines, NC, 1935
11/21/11 Thanksgiving Holiday, 1940
12/26/11 “Helen Isn’t With Us Anymore” (Christmas, 1946)
1/2/12 Ye Olde Game Groupe (1957- )
6/18/12 The Early Years of Rehoboth Heights
11/5/12 A Pinch of Salt
11/19/12 Socially Acceptable
2/4/13 Two Trips to the Sunshine State, 1928 and 1986
4/29/13 A 1939 Trip in our ’37 Packard
8/19/13 A Small House in Southern Pines, 1932
12/16/13 Mercury-Vapor Heat Lamps, 1930s
1/6/14 Bicycles, Clarence and Tom
3/10/14 A Trip to the North Cape, 1990
3/31/14 This Week in Time (Spring Vacations, 1939, 1942)
4/21/14 Clarence Marshall’s Gas Saver, 1930s
6/30/14 The Alaska Highway
9/1/14 The Last day of Summer
10/6/14 John and Leroy Benge, Father and Son
3/30/15 Boys’ State in Dover, 1941
6/8/15 June is Bustin’ Out All Over
6/15/15 How Motoring Came to Auburn Heights
6/22/15 Summer, 1933
7/27/15 Taking a Daily Shower
11/16/15 Clarence Marshall as a Stanley Dealer (1910-1920)
11/23/15 Clarence Marshall’s Introduction to the Old Car Hobby
3/21/16 Ruth Marshall’s Stuttgart Group
5/23/16 Lizzie Marshall’s Vacations
4/13/17 Early Trips of Clarence and Esther
6/13/16 In the Business World of the mid-20th Century
1/16/17 The Tenth Decade
2/6/17 Tour of the Lincoln Country, 1994
11/20/17 Special Years in a Lifetime
12/25/17 Christmas, 1933, at Grandmother Shallcross's Home (Repeat of 12/26/06)
2/26/18 Clarence Marshall west of the Mississippi
7/2/18 July 1, 1936 (Nova Scotia)
8/20/18 The Dates I Remember
10/15/18 Old-Time Automotive Stories
10/22/18 Foliage Trip to New England, 1986 (Part One)
10/29/18 Foliage Trip to New England, 1986 (Part Two)
12/24/18 A Shallcross Christmas, 1933
Other Local History
2/21/05 Mitchells’ Jerseys and Woodside Farm Ice Cream
6/20/05 John Benge’s experiences on the “Republic”
6/12/06 The Yorklyn bridge
8/7/06 The National Bank and Trust Company of Kennett Square
9/11/06 Local roads, Railroad, and Trolley Line, Yorklyn
10/2/06 The Telephone Comes to Yorklyn
1/8/07 Steam passenger service on the B & O
1/29/07 Stores and Postmasters in Yorklyn
2/12/07 Kennett Square in the 1930s
4/2/07 Trolley Line Descriptions of Hockessin and Yorklyn, 1903
4/23/07 Early Public School System in This Area
5/7/07 Wilmington auto dealers in the 1930s
5/21/07 Minerva, Packard, and the Wrights of Newark
5/28/07 Parades and Anniversaries in Kennett Square
7/23/07 Old Kennett Road, Clifton Mills to Five Points
9/10/07 The Building of the Hoopes Reservoir, 1932
2/25/08 The Peirsons of Yorklyn
4/7/08 The Chalfants of Kennett Square
4/28/08 The History of Gun Club Hill
7/14/08 The Demise of Hercules, Inc.
7/28/08 Summertime, 1938
8/25/08 Buena Vista and John M. Clayton
1/26/09 Our Area Settled by Quakers
3/2/09 The Burning of the duPont Barns
3/16/09 Wilmington Friends School (1748- )
3/23/09 Local Roads, then and now
5/18/09 Wilmington & Western #98
9/27/10 Clarence Marshall’s Interest in Small Businesses
10/5/09 Visiting Wilmington, Then and Now
12/7/09 The Lukes of Delaware and Piedmont, WV
1/25/10 Connections (from Auburn) to the Outside World
3/22/10 The Wilmington & Western Rail Road
4/12/10 Hockessin’s Bicentennial, 1976
5/24/10 The Old Wilmington Friends School at 4th & West
9/20/10 Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation
10/11/10 Epidemics and Quarantines, early 20th Century
1/10/11 The End of a Country Club (Hercules)
3/7/11 Woodcrest in Yorklyn
3/28/11 The Delaware Travel Council, 1956-1976
4/25/11 It MIGHT Have Happened in 1905
6/6/11 Delaware Coast Natives, 1920s-1930s
6/13/11 The L. D. Caulk Company of Milford
7/25/11 Recreation Promotion & Service, Inc.
10/24/11 The Kennett Kandy Kitchen
12/12/11 The Short Line Bus Company
2/13/12 Yorklyn Road and a 96-year-old Story
2/20/12 The Cold Winter of 1934
2/27/12 The Mill on Greenbank Road (Part I)
3/5/12 The Mill on Greenbank Road (Part II)
5/7/12 Automobile Dealers in Kennett Square
5/21/12 Local Hockessin-Area Historians
6/25/12 The First Section of the Auburn Heights Preserve Trail
7/9/12 The Rectors and Hazzards of Kennett Township
9/24/12 Delaware- Upstate, Downstate
10/1/12 The Delaware Road, Part 1
10/8/12 The Delaware Road, Part 2
11/12/12 T. Coleman du Pont and the DuPont Highway
1/14/13 Local Connections with Automotive Pioneers
2/11/13 The Residents of Gun Club Hill, 1930s
2/25/13 Local Baseball
4/8/13 The Story of Kennett
4/15/13 How We Communicated Years Ago
11/11/13 The Creek Road to Wilmington, 1930s
11/25/13 The Packard Motor Company of Wilmington, 1930s
12/9/13 How the 20th Century changed our Lives
1/13/14 The Lukes and Beaver Valley Hill
2/17/14 Local Restaurants and Tea Rooms, 1930s
9/8/14 Hotels in Rehoboth Beach, 1930s
10/20/14 Men’s Barber Shops
1/5/15 The Friends Home in Kennett
1/12/15 Wilmington Banks in the 20th Century
3/16/15 South of the Canal
6/1/15 The Wilmington & Northern Railroad
7/20/15 1938 Flood on Red Clay Creek
9/7/15 Traveling the Roads of Delaware, 1930s
9/28/15 Tidbits from Years Ago
11/2/15 Hill Climbs on Gun Club Hill
12/28/15 The Good Doctors of Old
1/25/16 Delaware Blizzards of the Past
5/9/16 The DeStafney Farm behind Auburn Heights
6/27/16 Major Highway Routes through Our Area
8/1/16 The Last Passenger Train to Cape Charles
9/19/16 The Rivalry
10/17/16 When the Greenbank Mill Burned Down
12/5/16 The Emmerts of Delaware
12/12/16 Local Roads and when they were Built
3/27/17 Electric Trolley Lines around Wilmington
4/17/17 Wholesale Rose Growers in Kennett Square
4/24/1 7 England’s Plans in America, 17th and 18th Centuries
5/1/17 Co-Ops and Supermarkets
5/29/17 Chauffeurs of Note
11/13/17 How the Wilmington & Western R.R. was Revived
12/18/17 The Railroad to Freedom
1/1/18 Wawaset Park and John Philip Sousa
2/5/18 The Evolution of Communication
9/10/18 Hockessin and Yorklyn, 1930s
10/1/18 Professional Railroaders on the Wilmington & Western
STEAM CAR ADVENTURES AND BREAKDOWNS
Trips in Stanley Cars
2/28/05 Two Steamers on Shenandoah Trip, 1951
4/11/05 Stanley Model 71 and trip to Devon, 1946
5/9/05 Mountain Wagon and Cross-country March of Dimes, 1956
5/16/05 Mountain Wagon and conclusion of March of Dimes trip
6/27/05 John Benge’s trip to Tolchester Beach about 1915
7/11/05 1948 Steam Car Tour, Charlemont, MA
7/15/05 First Lakeville, CT, Steam Car Tour, 1955
8/8/05 The New England Glidden Tour, 1947
11/14/05 Pennsylvania Glidden Tour, 1948
1/2/06 First Third of 1972 Trip in Steamer, Yorklyn to Yellowstone
3/20/06 Second third of 1972 trip in steamer, Yellowstone to San Diego
5/8/06 Last third of 1972 trip in steamer, San Diego to Yorklyn
5/22/06 1970 Trip to and from Woodstock, VT, in 1912 Stanley Mountain Wagon
7/31/06 The 1953 Detroit Glidden Tour in the Model 735
9/25/06 Trip to Steam Car Meet, Wellesley, MA, 1951
11/27/06 1972: An Outstanding Year (See also 1/2/06, 3/20/06, 5/8/06)
7/9/07 A Fast Weekend in a Stanley (1951)
11/5/07 Head Winds and Tail Winds
11/26/07 A Guest House at Intervale
2/18/08 Steam Car Tour to Kingfield, 1981
3/3/08 Our Cars on Glidden Tour Revivals
6/2/08 Our Stanleys in Important Places
7/7/08 Our Model 76 on the 1975 Glidden Tour
6/29/09 Springtime in the Rockies
7/13/09 Saratoga Springs, 1770-2009
1/18/10 Spring Steam Trips to Virginia
2/15/10 The Great Stanley Trips (First Third of 1979 “Trans-Con”)
3/1/10 Second Third of ’79 Tour, Walt Disney World to Toronto
3/15/10 Final Third of ’79 Tour, Toronto to Halifax, and then home
5/3/10 Harbor Island in San Diego
5/10/10 Another Great Trip (Pebble Beach to Jekyll Island) 1982
6/14/10 “Trans-Con” (continued), Durango to Tulsa, 1982
7/12/10 Final Third of 1982 “Trans-Con,” Tulsa to Jekyll Island
7/26/10 Our First Trip West with a Trailer, 1990
8/9/10 Our Stanley Model 87 and Cornell University
11/1/10 Roxbury, New York, 1957
11/22/10 Notable People on the ’57 Glidden Tour
2/28/11 Driving a Stanley with Poor Planning, 1980
3/14/11 Driving a Stanley over the road (20 trips to New England)
4/4/11 Trip to Buck Hill Falls, 1964
8/1/11 Long Distance Records of Steam Car Operators
10/10/11 My Introduction to Stanley Cars
10/31/11 Steam Cars Owned by Our Local Volunteers
4/9/12 1989 “Trans-Con” Tour, Galveston to Bar Harbor (Part I)
4/16/12 1989 “Trans-Con” Tour, Galveston to Bar Harbor (Part II)
4/23/12 1989 “Trans-Con” Tour, Galveston to Bar Harbor (Part III)
8/20/12 “Secondary” Steam Car Tours
9/3/12 A Special Steam Car Tour (Finger Lakes), 1997
10/15/12 A Fast Trip to Rehoboth in a Stanley
1/7/13 Local Owners of Stanleys since World War II
10/14/13 Steam Car Tour to Rehoboth and the Eastern Shore, 1969
10/21/13 Steam car Tour to Mason-Dixon country, 1970
2/24/14 Notable People on the 1957 Glidden Tour (Repeat of 11/22/10)
6/23/14 Trips to Kingfield, Maine
8/18/14 Stanley Trip to Lakeville, CT, 1976
8/25/14 Steam Car Meet at Kent, Ohio, 1957
9/15/14 The Longest Days in a Stanley
11/24/14 Steam Car Tours at Woodstock, Vermont
1/19/15 Traveling by Steam with the Gardners, Part One
1/26/15 Traveling by Steam with the Gardners, Part Two
2/2/15 Traveling by Steam with the Gardners, Part Three
3/2/15 Our Stanleys with Important People, 1949-2013
8/31/15 Eastern Steam Car Tour at St. Thomas, PA, 1975
1/11/16 The Great New Jersey Steam and Air Race, circa 1975
3/28/16 Traveling through Yosemite National Park in a 60-year-old Stanley
2/29/16 How a Packard was Acquired, 1956
3/7/16 The Marshall Collection- the Cars that Came and Went (Part One)
3/14/16 The Marshall Collection- the Cars that Came and Went (Part Two)
8/15/16 U. S. Route 202, Our Long-time Steamer Route to New England
10/31/16 Passengers on Steam Car Tours
5/22/17 “Trans-Cons” on which I Did Not Participate
3/12/18 The Model 607 on two Glidden Tours
3/19/18 Driving a Stanley near the Factory
7/23/18 12-Day Progressive Tour of Northern New England, 1991
7/30/18 Another Long Steamer Tour, 1996
Breakdowns and Problems with Cars
8/15/05 Why More Antique Auto Collectors Didn’t Run Stanleys
10/3/05 Preparations Made for 1972 Cross-Country Tour in ’12 Stanley
11/21/05 Restoring 1912 Model 88 Stanley Mountain Wagon
1/9/06 Parts Required for a Stanley Burner
2/13/06 Castor Oil and Stanley brakes
3/27/06 Pilot Lights in Stanley Burners over the Years
1/22/07 Doble Steam Cars
1/28/08 Hard Luck on Stanley Trips
2/4/08 More Hard Luck on Stanley Trips
6/9/08 Lamps and Windshields as Accessories
7/21/08 Special Bodies on High-End Cars
12/29/08 White Steam Cars (1901-1910)
5/4/09 Restoration of Stanley Model 607
10/12/09 One Night in Billings, 1972
10/16/09 Stanleys can be Vulnerable
5/2/11 Preparing for a Motor Trip to California
5/23/11 Steam Cars Other than Stanleys
1/16/12 Misfortunes with Stanley cars
1/23/12 More Operator Errors with Stanley cars
8/5/13 Building a Modern Steam car
8/17/15 What We Do to “Keep Running”, Part I
8/24/15 What We Do to “Keep Running”, Part II
10/5/15 Delayed in Oil City (1979)
1/18/16 Damage to 1914 Stanley Model 607, 1949
4/18/16 Bent Fenders by a Careless Driver, 1940
7/25/16 Early Wheels, Rims, and Tires for Automobiles
TOM MARSHALL’S ADVENTURES (NOT OTHERWISE COVERED)
Odd Lifetime Adventures
4/18/05 Popcorn Machine and Steam Cylinder Oil, circa 1962
4/24/06 Tom Almost Penniless in ’40 Packard, 1948 (also 8/26/13)
5/29/06 Beginning of Revived W & W, 1966, and Cab Ride on N & W Locomotive, 1956
6/26/06 Hiding Money at Oxford (England)
3/12/07 1974 Trip to New England in ’32 Packard
4/9/07 An Overnight Trip from Boston, 1943
12/10/07 Learning to Drive
3/24/08 A Winter Trip to Sunny California (1957)
5/12/08 Visits to San Francisco
5/19/08 A Spoiled Young Man, 1941
6/23/08 Northern Latitudes and the Summer Solstice
11/17/08 Miss South Carolina, 1965
7/27/09 A Fall Night in Scotland, 1960
11/2/09 A Travel Agent in Wilmington
11/23/09 Planning a Big Tour 50 years ago
2/22/10 Visit to Cooperstown, NY, 1955
10/18/10 A Comedy of Errors (’75 Mercury Monarch)
1/24/11 A Winter Trip in 1981
7/11/11 The United Kingdom in the 1950s
8/22/11 Holiday Inns of America
7/2/12 June 30, A Day of Importance
8/6/12 A Trip through the West Indies, 1950
3/18/13 Learning to Drive (Repeat of 12/10/07)
6/17/13 The London-to-Brighton Run, 1960
7/15/13 A Y.M.C.A. Trip to Washington, 1936
8/26/13 Tom almost penniless in ’40 Packard, 1948 (repeat of 4/24/06)
9/23/13 Blackboards, Chalk, and Erasers
12/2/13 A “Heavy Foot” and other troubles
1/20/14 S.A.S. and Solveig
11/9/15 Steam Passenger Trains in the British Isles, 1951
10/24/16 Norway in my Lifetime
3/6/17 The Great New England Blackout, 1965
Stories Connected with World War II Service
4/17/06 Troop Trains in World War II
11/13/06 Boston in War Time (1942-44)
2/19/07 Train trips to Providence, 1943
8/6/07 Experiences in the Pacific, 1945
8/27/07 Flying in a B-24, World War II
12/3/07 Remember Pearl Harbor
12/24/07 Christmas on Guam, 1945
1/7/08 Forecasting Weather in New Mexico, 1944
1/14/08 The Weather Station at Roswell (NM)
1/21/08 Roswell Experience Finale, 1944-45
9/8/08 Weather School, Brown Univ., 1943
9/22/08 Weather School, M.I.T., 1943-44
12/1/08 A Wartime Trip in my ’40 Packard
12/22/08 A New Mexico Christmas, 1944
2/16/09 Lowly Second Lieutenants in World War II
7/20/09 Okinawa, Fall, 1945
3/8/10 A Week in June, 1943 (Rhode Island)
5/17/10 The Pacific was OUR Ocean
7/19/10 A Tale of Long Ago (1945)- Ancient Village on Guam
8/27/12 Living on the Islands, 1945-46
12/24/12 Three Months to Christmas, 1942
5/27/13 Associations in World War II
9/9/13 After the War was Over (World War II), Part 1
9/16/13 After the War was Over, Part 2
4/28/14 Troop Trains in World War II (Repeat of 4/17/06)
8/11/14 This Time in 1945 – Exciting Days
11/10/14 The Trip Home from Guam, 1946
12/8/14 Remember Pearl Harbor (Repeat of 12/3/07)
12/21/15 Christmas on Guam, 1945 (Repeat of Dec. 24, 2007)
1/4/16 “Weather Finale”, Roswell, NM (Repeat of 1/21/08)
2/8/16 Three weeks on Okinawa, 1945
9/5/16 Diversification in the Army Air Force
4/30/18 August 6, 7, 8, 1946 (San Francisco)
6/18/18 Weekends from Brown University, 1943
OTHER HISTORY
Americana
6/6/05 The Longest Day, and Tom Marshall’s remembrances (1944)
3/5/07 Clubs and Social Customs about 1900
10/29/07 Our American Language
5/5/08 The Pittsburgh Titans
11/3/08 U. S. Vice-Presidents
12/8/08 A Time to Remember (December 7)
1/19/09 Presidential Inaugurations, 1861 and 2009
2/23/09 Let’s Turn It Around!
6/1/09 Dwight D. Eisenhower and D-Day, 1944
9/14/09 1776, a very special year
10/19/09 The Real Heroes
1/4/10 Providence Plantation
4/19/10 A Fateful Week in History
6/20/11 Cities vs. Country, 1900
9/26/11 Model A Fords
11/28/11 Presidential Tidbits of Old
5/7/12 American History in Perspective
6/4/12 A Week Sealed in Time (D-Day, 1944)
7/16/12 The History of West Virginia
3/4/13 Our American Language
6/3/13 Eight Days in November, 1963
7/8/13 Robert E. Lee north of the Potomac
8/12/13 Seventy-Six
9/30/13 The Spirit of St. Louis
11/18/13 Lincoln and Gettysburg; Kennedy and Dallas
3/3/14 The Chautauqua Institute
4/14/14 Life on the Mississippi
5/5/14 How California became “American”
5/19/14 Biltmore Hotels
6/16/14 Pharmaceutical Giants, American Success Stories
7/14/14 The International Peace Park
7/28/14 How Did They Speak?
10/13/14 Population Shifts in the United States
2/23/15 George Washington (1732-1799)
3/9/15 Mississippi River Steamboats
3/23/15 Canals and Electric Railways
4/13/15 Automobiles in the 1930s
4/27/15 The Last Week of April
5/11/15 Seventy Years Ago: V-E Day, 1945
6/29/15 Pneumatic Tires- A Great Idea
7/6/15 American Tire Manufacturers
9/14/15 Railroads and Restaurants
12/7/15 A Time to Remember (Repeat of Dec. 8, 2008)
2/15/16 Presidential Trivia
4/4/16 Major World’s Fairs of the Past
7/18/16 Before There Was Air Conditioning
9/12/16 Actors and Actresses Depicting Famous People
9/26/16 Resort Hotel Staffs and How They Moved
5/8/17 Steamboat Services in North America, mid-20th Century
11/6/17 The United Service Organizations
11/27/17 The Fair of the Iron Horse
1/8/18 Passenger Rail Service before the Interstates
2/19/18 Readers' Digest "Shorts"
3/26/18 Along the Seaboard Air Line
4/2/18 Presidential Trivia
5/7/18 Northern Pacific Railway
8/13/18 Colorado and its Rivers
8/27/18 South of Pittsburgh, 1930s
9/24/18 Maps and Where You Are
11/12/18 The Greatest Generation
11/26/18 History of Thanksgiving
12/10/18 Here Come the Streamliners
12/31/18 Sears, Roebuck & Company
Trapshooting in General (Usually not at Yorklyn)
3/26/07 Trapshooting as a social activity in this area, 1930s & 1940s
4/27/09 Philadelphia’s Gun Clubs, Roxborough and Quaker City
8/16/10 The Willises of Penns Grove and John Philip Sousa
10/25/10 Maryland-Delaware Trapshooters’ League, 1947
7/4/11 July 18, 1943
12/31/12 Trapshooting at Resort Hotels
5/6/13 Aberdeen, Maryland, a Sportsman’s Town
2/3/14 The Avondale Squad
5/12/14 A Look Back in Time (May, 1941)
7/21/14 The Year My Dad was President (ATA, 1939)
9/29/14 The Atlantic Indians (1918- )
5/25/15 Testimonial Shoot for T. Clarence Marshall, 1940
7/13/15 Trapshooters’ Hot Streaks
8/3/15 The Guns with which We Shot
8/10/15 Trap Guns Revisited
5/15/17 How I Learned to Shoot
1/29/18 January 20, 1938 (the building of a new Western trap)
3/5/18 Roaming Trapshooters, 1941
4/16/18 Shawnee-on-the-Delaware
Other History not Covered in Any Other Category
2/14/05 The Stanley and Ricker families of Maine
2/6/06 Ormond Beach, FL, then (1906) and now (2006)
7/17/06 Alex Joyce’s grandmother’s train trip to Estes Park
11/6/06 AACA Fall Meets at Devon
12/11/06 “Let’s Go to the Movies”
3/19/07 Time Zones and Daylight Saving Time
4/30/07 Numbering System for Highways
7/2/07 Simple Ditties of the 1930s
8/13/07 Seamstresses of long ago
9/3/07 Labor Day period of the past
10/15/07 Radio just prior to World War II
3/10/08 The Pottles of Southern Pines
3/31/08 When We Rode the Rails (Sleeping Cars)
4/14/08 Toothpaste and Shaving Cream
8/4/08 Commuting to the Shore, 19th Century
9/29/08 Major League Baseball
10/13/08 Duncan Hines
2/2/09 England in the mid-20th Century
2/9/09 Eastern Mountain Resorts and the Railroads that served them
4/6/09 Mount Washington Auto Road
4/20/09 Steamship Services of Old
5/11/09 Harrington Raceway and Delaware State Fair
5/25/09 Memorial Day at Mercersburg
8/17/09 Hotels in the late 1930s
8/31/09 Climbing Mount Washington, 1899
9/28/09 Improved Commerce in Delaware
12/14/09 The Coolidges of Vermont
12/21/09 Christmas Greetings
6/28/10 Old-fashioned hotels in existence today
11/8/10 World’s Fairs in North America
11/15/10 Cretors... [truncated due to length]
