Oh, heckydamn - I may have this totally screwed up.............Bev may know, she's up on Mass history.................
Should have stipulated that I do not believe that this is related to the CVFA (Call Volunteer Fire Assistance) - the current volunteer fire...
I believe that the VFA is Volunteer Fire Assistance, more social club than not these days, though I may have that mixed with another organization.
It appears that he might have been stashing some ill-gotten gains "up-front" until he could fence them....................I've known some dealers...
Welcome, Frank from Cutler Bay, Florida! I'm Chicago based right now, but I spent more time in Naples, Florida than I care to remember!
So glad that you are recovering so easily and that the surgery was successful. And very glad that you are on the road to enjoying life again!
Rubbing alcohol does the same without the odor and is cheaper. It evaporates more quickly as well. I do avoid using it on old cloth bound books...
And in my opinion, there is a slight "taste" difference between silver and stainless steel (flatware) - one that I have always been aware of and I...
Coincidentally, I just mentioned the Art Deco building I first worked in a sort of memory/monograph about my first job (vs my current job) on my...
My avatar is a (large format) photo of an ancestor - and I used it because over the past few decades so many have noted our resemblance that I...
Oh my! Lovely photos - and the nostalgia it causes for most of the "business" buildings of my youth in New York City is overwhelming! My first...
As an aside - the photo of you conforms SO closely to the unconscious mental image I had developed of you that it is almost uncanny. Though it...
Thank you (and your partner) so much for including us in this adventure! Now comes your "payoff" and I hope that is as, or more rewarding as the...
She was worse AFTER the boys were born.............
I can say the same thing, but it has NOTHING to do with toxic metals.............:rolleyes:
The Jerome family was the epitome of "parvenu" and Jenny was not just a "rebel" - beauty or not - she was (by the standards of the times) an...
Which makes Winston and Anderson Cooper 2nd or 3rd cousins, 2 or 3 times removed - I forget the actual connection And Winnie's mum was an...
I grew up around guns, learned to shoot while a bitty sprog and still can't tell you the difference between a .22 and a howitzer........sorry if I...
Myriad times I have heard people say things such as "I marched right back to Sears and told them I wasn't paying for those portraits! Why the hell...
Which could be the result of a poor photographer as artist more than anything else! PS I wish to stress that I am NOT being argumentative or...
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