One of my father's favorite singers is Loretta Lynn. Below is a link to a wonderful song by Loretta Lynn and Willie Nelson

"Lay Me Down"

Lucet

I use a simple lucet to make cords that go around a hand-woven cover for the copy of The Constitution that is included with each quilt.

Bob Hope - Entertaining The Troops

Yarmouth Deputy Police Chief Lt. Steven Xiarhos reacts to death of Osama bin Laden

Recently I was doing some research online for information regarding the history of the Singer model 237 sewing machine. A wonderful place for sewing machine info is ISMACS - The International Sewing Machine Collector's Society.  While looking through their pages, I found a link to a manual that I had been unable to find before - to a Military manual on repairing and maintaining sewing machines.

ISMACS Main Site

ISMACS Research Page

Military Manual Chapter 4  - pages 51 and 57 (top right navigation) have info on Singer 31-15

Military Manual Chapter 9

For many Veterans, PTSD or other traumas change their lives.  Susan Boyle echoes this type of change in her rendition of "I Dreamed A Dream" from Les Miserables

Susan Boyle "I Dreamed a Dream"

The USO