The previous post described how some of Aunt Marian’s items were donated to the Pennsylvania Military Museum in the early 1980s. When the donation was made, her sister Ruth wrote a letter that ...
https://myauntthewac.com/2015/04/06/put-flowers-on-tomb-of-unknown-soldier/
Some of Aunt Marian’s items were donated to the Pennsylvania Military Museum in the early 1980s. When the donation was made, her sister Ruth wrote a letter that described Marian. It said in p...
https://myauntthewac.com/2015/04/02/older-children-care-for-younger-siblings-in-large-families/
Montgomery was nearest town to the Solomon farm. When Aunt Marina was a child, she probably made the 5-mile trip into town with her parents in a horse and buggy. By the time she was an adul...
https://myauntthewac.com/2015/03/31/downtown-montgomery-pennsylvania/
The farm where Aunt Marian grew up is located very near U.S. Route 15, which is a major north-south highway in Pennsylvania. The intersection near the farm is right before the road starts to asce...
https://myauntthewac.com/2015/03/25/farm-near-a-major-highway/
I don’t think linearly. As I struggle to get my head around who Aunt Marian was, and what she was like, I think about the years she was in the military—but I also think about the first 45 y...
https://myauntthewac.com/2015/03/23/the-farm-where-aunt-marian-grew-up-now-and-then/
After I did my previous post on WAC uniforms, a reader asked about the types of work that WACs did. Well, here’s the answer. According to a 1944 recruiting brochure: The WACS . . . They do 155 ...
https://myauntthewac.com/2015/03/15/the-wacs-they-did-155-important-army-jobs/
Did Aunt Marian like the way she looked in her WAC uniform? According to a recruiting brochure, during World War II WACs received clothing that would have cost about $250 retail.
https://myauntthewac.com/2015/03/12/wac-uniforms-during-world-war-ii/
The WAC insignia was widely used. It would have even been on the buttons on Aunt Marian’s uniform. The insignia was an image of the Greek Goddess, Pallas Athena. According to the Women’s Army...
https://myauntthewac.com/2015/03/08/pallas-athena-the-wac-insignia/
Source: United States Army in World War II: The Women’s Army Corps by Mattie Treadwell (Published by the Department of the Army in 1954) Several readers recently wrote wonderful comments about ...
Many of the recipes in Aunt Marian’s cookbook were handwritten, but there also were some that were clipped from newspapers or magazines. I was intrigued by an Apple Pudding recipe. Here’s a s...
https://myauntthewac.com/2015/03/01/old-fashioned-apple-pudding-recipe/