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TOPIC:   Thomases
Here are the articles currently on the website.


A Methodist Accountant in India
My father's World War II experiences.

Toastmaster
Speeches by my father:  Vote, disagree but not bitterly, avoid strikes, sell the idea of giving.

The Swing
Discovering the story of a dramatic lynching in my father's hometown.

Two Thousand Tom Thomases
Just how unusual is my repetitive name?

One Hundred Tom Thomases
Fivescore folks who answer to the same name as I.

Got a Match?
My father's matchbook collection.

B.R. Isaiah
On India's religions, the changes brought by Christianity, and a church that our family built.

Cringing
My phobia about being inside tall rooms may be related to an evolutionarily acquired reflex.

Threads:  My Father's Dealership
A summer job at the Chevrolet garage leads to a few incidents recounted in letters.

Seeing the Western USA
The illustrated diary of a three-week car trip in 1959.

Threads:  Vacations with Parents
Such as Pennsylvania in 1975.

Vernon Thomas at the Richwood Fair
A local poet guests on my father's radio program from the fair.

Baby Pictures
A few images from my first six months, including a cartoon.

Covington
My parents were married in this Kentucky city.  They never told me why.

Dearest Ann
Excerpts from my father's letters from Calcutta in 1944.

New Wheels
For the first time in 153,351 miles, I invest in a new car.

My Double's Still At Large
A mysterious neighbor must look just like me.

Threads:  The Lonely Guy
Writing to old loves about the potential for new loves.

Item Four
Unable to love, I nevertheless pen a sonnet.

other Romance articles
   Antihymeneal Hymns
   Fragment
   The Parable of the Lady and the Cat
   The Prophetess

Threads:  Still Living at Home
Miscellany, including a puzzle.

Threads:  My First Apartment
In Washington, Pennsylvania.

Threads:  My Father and Me
More travel, after my mother's death.

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