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Mark Epperson Chapter United States Daughters of 1812 during the last week of February presented 37 children’s books to Linden Public Library. Pictured left to right are Iva Rountree, Nancy Belford, Kay Stephens, Linda Henderson, and Merle Duncan.

There was never a time we got into the car, as did many of you, when moms wouldn’t take over the road trip and make up fun games, great expressions, feed us treats, keep our minds off “are we there yet”, be entertaining and teach us all fun sayings, poems, songs and southern expressions. That was pretty much standard operating procedure as we learned and grew up riding and traveling to the grandmothers, aunts and uncles or maybe Wimberly for that once in a lifetime dude ranch week, or Colorado or Yellowstone. The long trips required pillows and coloring books!

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