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Panama Canal Zone 1943
Footage of soldiers serving in the Panama Canal Zone when Chuck Moudy was there.
Richardson Pan-American Highway Expedition 1940-1941
Check out this fun film of the Richardson Expedition from 1941 that gives a good sense of the magnitude of Chuck Moudy’s journey into Costa Rica. It is more likely he did not drive all the way in, and instead caught a boat up the coast. Watch the first part,…
KGU Pearl Harbor Broadcast
Three hours into the Pearl Harbor attack, a KGU reporter climbed to the roof of the Advertiser building with a microphone in one hand and telephone in the other to broadcast a transoceanic telephone call to NBC radio headquarters in New York City. Chuck Moudy may have been on that…
Generations [song]
By ©Diana Thornton I was a regular at O'Flaherty's, Danny O'Flaherty's pub in the French Quarter of New Orleans. O'Flaherty's was as close as one can come to a real Irish pub here in the states. Danny and his brother Patrick both spoke Gaelic and may of the people who…
Graham-Thornton Cemetery
In 2016 I visited the graves of my great great grandparents GJ Thornton and Maggie Boothe. They are buried in the Graham-Thornton Cemetery near Snowville in Pulaski County, ; The Graham-Thornton Cemetery has 32 identified burials between 1912 to 1979 spanning 4 generations of Grahams and ;All but one buried…
Rhoda Elizabeth Roop
Another sad story. Rhoda was admitted to Southwestern Mental Hospital in Marion, Virginia after she tried to kill herself. Southwestern was the same place Rhoda's sister's daughter Daisy's husband George Wade Thornton ended up (they were there at the same time for a while). Download Rhoda's PDF Chapter
Snowville, Virginia by Aida Carter
I found this short description written in 1937 of Snowville, Virginia online at the Library of Virginia. It does draw from Hundley's Historical Sketch (see below for link) as well as several others. Download PDF
Grandma Weiler’s Spinning Wheel
Reverend William Weiler wrote about his father's loom and his mother's "spinning outfit" which he brought back from Germany in 1908 when he visited home. Granddaughter Eleanor Wagner now has it. My father learned the trade of a linen weaver, but switched over to farming after the machine looms were…
Christina Behringer Strebe
In 1891 my great grandfather William Weiler came to America from Germany at the age of 14. He went directly to Lafayette, Indiana to stay with his aunt Christina. This is excerpted from Reverend William Weiler's autobiography Photos found on Ancestry - originally shared by Jodi Austin Christina (maiden…
Ulrich and Juliana Lahr
In 1891, my great grandfather Rev. William Weiler, age 14 and fresh off the boat from Germany, went to live and work with Ulrich Lahr and his wife and son William in Lafayette, Indiana. Rev. Weiler spoke of them in his autobiography. I am posting this PDF of an excerpt…