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A trip to Liberia in Africa leads to a brief history (living conditions, politics, and economics) of that country and a biography of President William V. Shadrach Tubman, known as "Uncle Shad".

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Topics: birding and traveling in Mexico with the author's daughter; archeology of the Mayas; the trip extended into British Honduras, Belize, Guatemala City, Sayayche and Tikal.

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Writer looks for a pianist both talented and compatible to play four-handed piano. Finally, the author found one and describes their first concert together performed for their friends.

Paper description The servants in the author's parents' home as well as those of both sets of grandparents, the Roods and the Quans. The Quans had Irish except for the butler and the laundress who were black. The Roods had Scandinavians. The author inherited one Swedish girl who got married, so she became the grand dame of the wedding. The underground railway brought Black people to Evanston, who worked as domestic servants for the whole area. The Great Depression affected farming so there were the girls...

Paper description How the WWI affected the author's family in Scotland and their move to Orkney for safety. Orkney is an archeological paradise - Iron age picts, Norsemen. The fleet used the Scapa Flow and the German navy was brought there after the war ended. The German's scuttled it. The local residents pirated the vessels. The author's father eventually bought for $20 a chronometer salvaged off the Hindenburg, which the author eventually sold it to the U.S. government for use by the fleet during WWII....

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The need for conservation in California. The importance of Point Reyes as a National Seashore. A great place to see birds. A movie followed the paper.

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An unwelcome family trip to the Bahamas for a cruise turned out to be a very happy event. So next was a houseboat on the Mississippi without a professional crew. Then a bare boat cruise in the Bahamas.

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The early days of the author's marriage revisited and the life of a non player in a family of tennis playing zealots. The importance of tennis is husband Artie's life.

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Topic: the Colorado River on rafts sponsored by the Sierra Club. The form of the paper is letters written to the author's daughter about the trip.

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A trip on the Delta Queen on the Ohio, Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers. The author and her group disembarked at Nashville. Descriptions include: the visit to Andrew Jackson's "The Hermitage" and the calliope on board ship. They continued down the Cumberland and then the Ohio again

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The health care crisis using Cook County Hospital as an example. The author touches on the political problems with the Cook County Commissioners running things. Then there is the AMA which resists change and which is a big lobby in both the State and National legislatures. Main problems: duplication of services in hospitals, misuse of Medicare, skyrocketing costs, uneven quality of care, and difficult accessibility for the poor.

Paper description Bertha Amelia Mackstroth, a Glencoe resident, a Radcliffe graduate, and a quilter, held a Radcliffe tea in 1930 at which she was the program. She told about her "sculptures in cloth". Born to a German mother and an American father she grew up in La Sueur, MN. Her German paternal grandparents, on the boat sailing to the U.S., sat side-by-side knitting. By the time they reached the U. S. they were married. Birdie's sister married Richard W Sears (founder of Sears Roebuck, the beginnings of...