The phrase Straight-laced was originally STRAIT laces. The old English word strait meant tight or narrow. In Tudor times buttons were mostly for decoration. Laces were used to hold clothes together. If a woman was STRAIT laced she was prim … Read More
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- She died before Christmas – Parents love for a child has no bounds – this story is a heart breaker
- PATRON + Roanoke – The prisoner and stump disappeared
- PATRON – Marengo County, Alabama – Some marriage records from 1818-1851
- PATRON + FUNNY FRIDAY: This was what “taking the census” was like in Alabama in 1840s
- This woman broke a glass ceiling in Alabama on December 5, 1919!
- PATRON + Word About The Treatment Of The Native-Americans Spread
- PATRON – Alabama Bible Record: George Washington Rivers
- PATRON+ GOOD OLE DAYS: Do you remember trying to diaper a squirming baby using diaper pins?
- My ingenious mother had other plans for me at Christmas!
- PATRON + Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories – Chap. 1 – Big Spring, Village Spring, and the Battle Ground