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Madam Lou Bunch Day 2013

Madam Lou Bunch Day is festival honoring Madam Louisa Ann Bunch 1857-1935 of Central City, CO. She was the best known and most voluptuous (weighing 300 lbs) of all the Central City madams back in the old days. Her brothel on Pine Street remained open from 1900-1916. Madam Lou Bunch Day and its bed races honor this Madam who will always be remembered in Central City. She and many of her girls helped nurse many of the miners who were sick and dying in an epidemic. Madam Lou Bunch Day is held the third Saturday every June in her honor.

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Grave site for Madam Lou bunch, donated by the Fortune Valley Casino, recently. She was the famous madam of Central City who died in 1935 and didn't have a head stone until recently. The head stone was erected in November 2011.Her grave can be found in Fairmount Cemetery in Denver in Block 77, Plot 91

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/colo-madam-gets-grave-marker-75-years-after-passing

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I move forward and know that I am me now. I put that other life to the side. I keep moving and educating. I bring joy to those who cry. I listen to those who need a friend and I cry in my soul when others still hate and don't love others as themselves. I try to always be positive and never dwell on that which is negative. Being happy and positive keeps you healthy and brings joy to those around you. Thanks for being my friend.

Cat Saves Dog From Bigger Dog

Sammy the Lifesaving Cat, as he is being called, is credited with saving the family dog’s life by fluffing himself up and confronting the bully when an aggressive bigger dog had little Izzy in its mouth.

Sammy raised and puffed out his fur and approached the big dog, then led it on a chase after it dropped Izzy to the ground. Sammy escaped without injury, and Izzy is being treated for her injuries at Animal Emergency and Critical Care Clinic in Toledo, OH, where the incident occurred. While Izzy’s injuries were life threatening, she is expected to make a full recovery.

Dr. Kittsen McCumber of the Animal ER said, “The big dog saw the cat and dropped Izzy and went after the cat. When that happened, the family was able to get Izzy to safety. The cat got away by running up a tree which truly saved Izzy’s life. The family said, ironically, Izzy chases the cat all the time, but the kitty must have felt some loyalty and ran over there and squared off with the bigger dog.”

From Life With Cats http://www.lifewithcats.tv/2013/04/18/2-cat-saves-dog-from-bigger-dog/

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Just A Bit Of Humor

A child-free condom jar  :)

Another Greatest Generation member has fallen. He was my Great-Uncle and I am so proud.

Thomas Charles "Chick" Corpe died Wednesday, April 10, 2013, in Belen, New Mexico. He was born August 11, 1918 to Joanna Willits and Thomas Mason Corpe at Mayoworth, Johnson County, Wyoming. He graduated from Johnson County High School in May, 1936. During his senior year of high school he stayed in a tent at the home of his sister and brother-in-law, Agnes and Leland Van Auken in Buffalo.

He joined the Navy in November 1936 and retired from the Navy in 1956. His ship was the USS Arizona, but he was in the states going to school when his ship was bombed at Pearl Harbor. He hoped that when he died his ashes would be taken to Pearl Harbor.

TC "Chick" Corpe married Lou Stubbs in Virginia in April 1944. They had two children, Candy and Chris. He married Maudie Beattie in 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Corpe was sent by the Navy to Sandia Base, Albuquerque, in 1953. After retiring from the Navy he continued working at Sandia Base. He enjoyed shooting sports, studying outer space, flying his private plane and e mailing friends and family .

He is survived by his sister, Peggy Kepford of Sheridan, Wyoming, son Chris Corpe, Tucson, Arizona and daughter Candy Jo Kennedy, grand children Bonnie Bates of Hauser Idaho, Sean Patrick Kennedy and Autumn Kennedy; stepson Carl Beattie, step grand daughters, Leah Beattie and Aura Beattie, nieces and nephews including Shirley Sturdevant and Joanna Taylor of Buffalo. .

He was preceded in death by his parents, sisters: Betty Sturdevant, Agnes Van Auken, brother Harold Corpe, wife Maude Corpe.

Memorial services will be held Wednesday, April 24, 2013, Noblin Funeral Belen Chapel, Belen, New Mexico.

Auschwitz-Birkenau 2012

Cynthia Southern went to Auschwitz in April 2012. She took over 1000 photos. Here are 90 of them.

Being Fruitful Without Multiplying book review

A new child-free book will be released on October 01, 2012.  It is entitled Being Fruitful Without Multiplying and is by Patricia Yvette, Renne Ann, Janice Lynne…and Many Others.  I am one of the others whose essay about child-free living will be included in this book.  It will be published by Coffee Town Press (www.coffeetownpress.com) and its price is $14.95 (254 pages, ISBN: 978-1-60381-155-2).  It is available from Amazon.com. 

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The Value of Patriotism

On Memorial Day as I walked the grounds of Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver I thought a lot about patriotism.  I looked at the graves before me and then thought that there were 98,000 souls who have gone on before me in this very cemetery I was visiting to pay my respects to fallen soldiers and veterans. Some had fallen in combat and many had served and died as old men who were proud to be veterans and to have served the United States of America in her Armed Forces.  The immensity of gratitude I felt towards them was profound and intense.  Because of them, I and millions of Americans have freedom and are blessed to live in the best nation in the world.  I write to this to honor those brave military men and women who have served and who serve the United States of America.

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