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Jonas Bablinskas was born in the Vaitkuškis manor near Ukmerge. His father, Peter, was a soldier of the Kossakowskis regiment, and his grandfather was born into slavery (surf) but was free in 1861. His father, Peter, served 25 years in the Russian army. Peter, along with the entire population of young me were forcibly conscriptedContinue reading “The story of Grandpa john (Йонас Баблінскас ) “

Thanksgiving morning was bright and clear. It was cold, maybe 38°. He slowly began to comprehend where he was, and eventually he opened his eyes to see that he was in the same room he had been before. He had spent the night driving up from College in the snowstorm. He remembered there all thoseContinue reading “Thanksgiving Storms”

At the corner of Rockton and Ellsworth Street in Amsterdam, New York, there’s a banner.  like all those banners celebrating the hometown heroes who served, this veteran is remembered because this is where Edward Bablin (Bablinskas) lived with his family from 1955 to his death in 2000. Before his death, he wrote down his storyContinue reading “Sailor remembering a Solider on the Gray Ghost”

A 1972 forest-green Oldsmobile Cutlass drives North along Route 30 to the great Sacandaga lake. The car belonged to her grandfather recently departed. The first sister has her apartment in Massachusetts, where a white cat waits for her. Like the first sister, the cat enjoys travel and each other’s company. They value independence. To achieveContinue reading ““Northampton shop””

Open House Baseball Roger Maris was traded to the Saint Louis Cardinals in 1967, so the New York Yankees weren’t the same again. He thought of this as he closed his locker for the last time on the last day of the last class of his senior year of high school.  His team would beContinue reading “open house Baseball”

Hello, everybody, this is my third post. My name is Ed. But you could call me by my. Pseudo name. Which is Stan Strikolas . I’m a dyslexic person, and I had an undiagnosed dyslexia. Diagnosed at the age of 32 and as a result, had a new lease on life. I have been writingContinue reading ““Oscar the Prince of Cats”.”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

Caroga Lake-by-the-Sea The amusement park was tremendous in the eyes of the 7-year-old boy. All he could dream about was the bumper cars. The bumper cars were located after a long drive through a pine forest with narrow winding roads that opened Sherman’s Caroga Lake Amusement Park. It was old when he was young, andContinue reading “Caroga lake by the Sea”