Meet the new official Tinker Doodle children, Timothy Tinker and his little sister Teresa. They enjoy playing games together when they are not squabbling amongst themselves or tattling on each other.
American Chestnut tree nuts were a vital food for Appalachian families, forage for animals, and a commodity for barter and sale. One man said," Chestnuts were like the manna God sent to feed the Israelites." A woman remarked, "A grove is a better provider than a man and easier to have around, too."
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TIMELINE-1736-Twelve-year-old Jeremy Chastaigne Mann had inherited personal qualities from both of his parents. He was an adventurous explorer like his father, the seafarer Captain Robyn Mann, and a thoughtful, inquisitive observer of the natural world like his well-read mother, Estella Chastaigne.
How did Howard Huffinger live to be 106? Sheer stubbornness, it was. He simply refused to let go despite the increasing difficulty of holding on. During hour 12, Howard could take a break by sitting or standing on the hand pinion, and at least he was levelish during the 3 and 9 hours. But 6...
Jeremy Chastaigne Mann welcomes you to Annapolis, Maryland, in 1768.
It was the sudden jerk at the end of the hangman’s noose that finally fixed his back problem, but for only about a minute while he gasped to breathe, his body jerking, because his neck had not been broken. Ironically, the chronic anxiety from a lifetime of crime had caused the chronic spinal pain.
TIMELINE-1772-Jeremy Chastaign Mann had a good laugh with Lady Janet Gladys about their romantic tryst during the French and Indian War when she was married to the wealthy Annapolis Assemblyman, Peter Gladys. They were almost caught in the act several times during that tempestuous period. Say more.
TIMELINE-1748-ANNAPOLIS-MARYLAND-Jeremy Chastaigne Mann was much shorter than Lady Jane Gladys. Nevertheless, despite being married to Assemblyman Gladys, she was enchanted by Jeremy's charm, self-assured smile, kind eyes, and adventurous spirit.
TIMELINE-By 1762, Jeremy Chastaigne Mann, though promoted to the rank of Colonel in the Maryland Militia, was weary of the war with the French. From Allegany County, he traveled alone to Baltimore, where Estella, his mother, then lived. He was ready to settle down, get married, and become a father.
TIMELINE-1704-The Boyhood of William Piscataway
William Piscataway was a native boy, orphaned during a Susquehannock raid, who was taken in by the Jesuit priests at Saint Inigoes Farm. Each evening after dinner, William took solace in the forest near the Chesapeake Bay, where he once belonged.
TIMELINE-1723-24-Estella in Maryland
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Chestnut Point Stories Vignettes
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Travis Mann was rocking on the East Porch of the Chestnut Point Manor House when the night air was soft, and the sky above granulated with stars. There, the ghost of the one-time buccaneer, Julius Tel, appeared during the second watch to smoke his pipe, stare at the stars, and gab about the past.
Captain Robyn Mann was 56 years old when he found a traumatized Portuguese Water Dog puppy hiding under the brightly painted hull of a Portuguese fishing boat on the beach in the aftermath of the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1745
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After graduating from the University in 1866, Benny Barsky joined the British army and was assigned to the Balloon Corps as a design engineer, developing long-range helium balloons in preparation for a war with France.
TIMELINE-1703-The Sevsaryn Family Bayt in Aleppo, Syria
Etella's beloved grandfather, Avghani, the astronomer, was the eldest of the five brothers, all of whom followed divergent paths. Each year, they gathered in the courtyard of the family bayt for a family feast, with music and games.
In 1855 in England, Benny Barsky was an 8-year-old boy with a big smile on his face, riding a velocipede, an early 19th-century ancestor of the bicycle featuring pedals attached directly to the front wheel axle.
In 1906, Benny Barsky was a jaded, 61-year-old veteran engineer who long accepted that the path to a successful design is strewn with the wreckages of costly prototypes. But after the engine of his new gasoline-engine bicycle burst into flames at the 1905 Chicago Autoshow, he thought about retiring.
In 1657, completing his seven-year indenture as a Patuxent River ferryman at Hallowing Point, John Lyttlejohn was given his due allotment of 50 acres. Lyttlejohn patented a lovely property in the wooded hills on the west side of the river overlooking Benedict Town, which he called Pilgrim's Farm.
"Bollocks" (often spelled bollacks, bollox, or ballocks) is a common British and Irish slang term originating from Middle English, primarily referring to testicles. It is widely used to mean 'rubbish' or 'nonsense,' but can also indicate a mess, a complaint, or a bold expression of disagreement.
1944, Great Britain, Thorpe Abbotts airfield
While performing for the USO in England, dancer Melanie Peters found herself in the sights of a handsome tail gunner named Jacob Mann. When the dashing flirt who laughed at death and lavished her with gifts was shot down over Italy, she cried for days.
1979-Eleanor's first gig in the movies was playing the body double for the world-famous, multiple Academy Award-winning actress Catherine Beaumont in the production of Bollacks. Eleanor's agent stage-named her "Ellie Best" for the credits of the comic murder-mystery film, which featured nude scenes.
1956-Six-year-old Eleanor Schloss, the first-generation, Jewish daughter of Lawrence and Mariam Schloss, who immigrated to Reading, Pennsylvania, from Germany during World War II, was first mistaken for Catherine Beaumont, the world-famous child movie star, when she was six. They were dopplegangers.
In colonial Maryland, the word "spinster" originated as an occupational designation, derived from the English practice of identifying women by their trade as spinners of yarn or thread. The term evolved in the colonies into the legal status of an adult woman, never to be married.
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Maddie Wright was a breeding slave born in 1774 on the Fellows Plantation in southern Anne Arundel County, Maryland. She had produced fourteen children, all of whom were taken from her at birth. The men who fathered her babies were black slaves except for one, Gilbert Fellows, her Quaker owner.
Every Sunday, come rain or shine, pregnant Maddie Wright walked five miles up Rolling Road in her muck boots. through lonely tobacco fields, to church. Her good shoes were in an oilskin bag. In the Ladies' Respite at the church, she switched footwear, including the pebble to feel Christ's suffering.
1740
Disobeying her mother, Annali Chastaigne snuck some crackers up to bed one night.
While reading a cyclopedia by candlelight, she had a munchfest, then fell fast asleep.
Just before midnight, Annali was awakened by something small and furry moving under her blankets, a small orphan mouse.
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Caboosh refers to a crowd, the whole lot, or everything, often used in the phrase "the whole caboosh" (similar to "the whole caboodle").
It is considered a variant of the slang term caboose, and in Ulster-Scots, it denotes the entire number of people or things.