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07/29/2010 07:59 AM
Willow Casket Being Made
here for a short video
on the manufacture of caskets made out of willow.
It is done by a company out of England called Somerset Willow:
“Each one of our willow coffins has been beautifully and caringly hand woven by one of our skilled basket makers, making each coffin unique, special and a personal tribute to a loved one.
Willow is harvested annually, grows from the same crown up to 60 years, making it one of the few truly environmentally renewable resources.”
here is their website.
07/20/2010 08:04 AM
“Green for Eternity”
here
for a thought provoking look at researchers in Europe attempting to invent alternatives to embalming AND cremation.
07/10/2010 07:36 AM
Famous Funeral Poems
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for a website that is a useful portal for funeral poems of various subject matter; It also has film clips on the deaths of famous people–John Lennon, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe….
06/28/2010 08:05 AM
4TH OF JULY ECUMENICAL SERVICE IN READSTOWN BANDSTAND
by John H. Sime
The Readstown Historical Society will continue it tradition of sponsoring an ecumenical church service in the bandstand of the uptown Bliss Memorial Park. The bandstand was recently re-dedicated after a rebuilding and paint job of the 105 year old structure.The service will take place on Sunday, July 4, 2010 at 9:45 AM. Pastor Paul Carlson of Peace Lutheran Church and Pastor Lance Lorenz of Readstown Church of Christ will officiate. It is also reported that Methodists of the area, who will be without a minister that weekend, will participate.
Musicians of the participating churches will be involved. Communion will be taken in the manner of the respective churches. Offerings will be taken for each church, with the loose, non-designated funds going to the construction of the memorial brick walkway around the bandstand.
In case of rain, the service will be held in Peace Lutheran Church at 112 E. Center St., Readstown.
06/05/2010 10:01 AM
Soldiers Grove, an American’s kind of town
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A website that features a ride through Soldiers Grove…………………” This is a town of about 700, rolling landscapes of unglaciated hills, situated along the “mighty” Kickapoo River and Baker Creek. It is also the site of a magnificent Veterans Memorial and a park honoring Medal of Honor recipient Beauford T. “Andy” Anderson, who nearly single-handedly took down 25 enemy soldiers on Kakazu Ridge, Okinawa, and saved his company’s flank through good old fashioned GI ingenuity and the help of a fellow comrade, Hans Kaufmann, who fed him their improvised “ammo.” Celebrating Andy’s achievements one year caused one local poet’s wife to weep and him to swallow hard. America at it’s very best in Soldiers Grove.”
05/19/2010 07:39 AM
State Forms on Advance Directives
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04/16/2010 07:47 AM
Big Light in the Sky
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Collection of videos of the recent Western Wisconsin meteor.
03/14/2010 08:27 PM
Kickapoo Earth Day–Readstown, Wis. April 24, 2010
go here for website
03/14/2010 10:38 AM
Flood Warning
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02/25/2010 09:10 AM
Death of the Dugutigi–A Malian funeral
(scroll down to Feb. 23 entry)
“I knew it was coming. The dugutigi (chief of the village) was bedridden for several weeks. And then a few weeks ago I woke up to find five women sweeping outside my hut (which is next to the chief’s compound). As I tied my running shoes I stopped and asked one of the women why she was sweeping the ground. I already knew and dreaded the answer that she gave me.”
Go Here
(scroll down to Feb. 23 entry)
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