Go Back to your old neighborhood / Check out your childhood home
Put in any address where you used to live and use the up and down arrows to navigate around your old neighborhood. When you enter an address you will see a picture of that place. There's a little map with a little man on it - you can move the little man up and down the block if you need to.
Click here: www.vpike.com
WHEN TO STOP FOR A SCHOOL BUS LOADING/UNLOADING CHILDREN:
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HUNTING SAFETY
South Carolina Law allows hunting on private property.
Keep your family and pets safe by being aware
of the laws and the many hunting seasons.
website: SC Hunting
Year by Year
What kind of snake is that?
Identify and learn about local reptiles and amphibians - just roll your curser over the name and see a photo!
To check gas prices at local stations:
Family Watchdog allows you to see where registered sexual offenders live and work around you.
Ben Cohen (of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream) explains our federal budget using Oreo Cookies:
A well-trained puppy just for you ...
Type in a command and see what happens... sit, roll over, down, stand, sing, dance, shake, fetch, play dead, etc. And...it's also very cute if you type in commands that are not recognized...try a few of those, too!! Make sure you type in "Kiss" too, but do it last !!!
Did you change the batteries in your smoke detectors when you changed your clocks?
Often, power is lost when fire starts!
So be sure your detectors will work by making it a habit to change the batteries
when you change your clocks Spring & Fall.
It's a small price for saving lives.
Stop what you're doing and do it NOW!
The Star Spangled Banner
Composed by Francis Scott Key, "In Defense of Fort McHenry", September 20, 1814.
Congress proclaimed it the U.S. National Anthem in 1931.
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us as a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
What did your town look like according to Penny Postcards?
Check out your old stomping grounds during the times of the penny postcard.
Click on the state and then on the county to see old
penny postcards from that area.....pretty neat.