This Year in History, 1933
November 19, 1933. Josephine Sianchuk marries Joseph Sworak. Mother was 20 years of age. While Dad had just marked his 22 birthday, two days earlier on November 17. He’d go on to repeat every year...
Author: Gravel Roads
The Tennessee Waltz, 1958
November 19, 1958. Mother and Dad’s 25th wedding anniversary. The dance band is playing at the old log community hall, near Larisa School. Can’t you just hear Leonard Borsa on guitar? Applause. Voices from the crowd calling for Jean....
And With the Same Woman, 1983
November 19, 1983. Mother and Dad’s 50th wedding anniversary. All are assembled at the Seniors’ gathering place, the Drop In Center on main street, Wishart. Applause. Voices from the crowd. Twenty-five years ago they were...
Where Have all the Poppies Gone?
You know the Facebook prompt,’What’s on your mind’? On the evening of November 11th, Gravel Roads had names on her mind. Names of family members who were veterans. Of colleagues who uphold the cause of veterans. Of friends who are surviving...
On This Day in History
1728, Explorer Captain James Cook, is born. 1867, Polish chemist, physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, is born. 1885, Last Spike ceremony symbolizing the completion of Canada’s first transcontinental railway. 1908, Dutch capture Venezuelan navy....
Hey, Good Lookin’ — What Ya Got Cookin’?
North of the 49th parallel, Thursday, November 6th is ‘National Men Make Dinner Day”. Why Dick Van Dyke? Gravel Roads could locate very few images of men in the kitchen, retro- vintage-dated. Other than...
