Yes, it's true -- it's time for the next Raphael's Village contest. Again, with no entry fee, but also again with prizes!

This time, there are four categories -- Poetry, Humor, Short Fiction, and Short Narrative Nonfiction -- all with the same theme: Independence Day. That's about it -- our only parameters are the line or word counts. Other than that, amaze us with your take on those two words. Funny, scary, fictional, slice-of-life, fantastic, scientific, patriotic, pro, anti, real -- whatever that phrase conjures up in your writer's mind, they want to see it.

Join them at www.raphaelsvillage.com for all the contest rules.

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Magdelena Rosina Tackman
Birth: 21 Aug 1881, Sebawaing, MI
Death: 28 Oct 1946, Frankenlust Cemetery
Father: John TACKMAN
Mother: Mary RUMMEL

Spouse: George Frederick Weber
Birth: 15 Nov 1874, Wenona, Bay County, MI
Death: 27 Nov 1938
Burial: Trinity Lutheran Church, Monitor, MI

Children:

Rose (Rosina) (1902-1963)
William Frederick (1903-1991)
Henry (1905-1989)
Edward (1906-1990)
Clara (1908-1996)
Pauline (AKA Elizabeth H.P.) (1909-1939)
Otto (1911-1913)
Leonard John (1913-1996)
Conrad John (1915-)
Alvina (1917-1919)
Lenora Wilhilmina (1920-1973)
Irene (1923-1972)

George Frederick Weber
Birth: 15 Nov 1874, Wenona, Bay County, MI
Death: 27 Nov 1938
Burial: Trinity Lutheran Church, Monitor, MI

Spouse: Magdelena Rosina TACKMAN1
Birth: 21 Aug 1881, Sebawaing, MI
Death: 28 Oct 1946, Frankenlust Cemetery
Father: John TACKMAN
Mother: Mary RUMMEL

Children:
Rose (Rosina) (1902-1963)
William Frederick (1903-1991)
Henry (1905-1989)
Edward (1906-1990)
Clara (1908-1996)
Pauline (AKA Elizabeth H.P.) (1909-1939)
Otto (1911-1913)
Leonard John (1913-1996)
Conrad John (1915-)
Alvina (1917-1919)
Lenora Wilhilmina (1920-1973)
Irene (1923-1972)

Louisa Johanna SCHLICKER
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Birth: 15 Oct 1884
Death: 21 Dec 1979
Father: Wilhelm Christian August (AKA William) SCHLICKER (1858-)
Mother: Engel Fredericka WEGENER (1857-1931)

Spouse: Ernst Carl Henry (Heinrich) BEYER
Birth: 4 Mar 1874, Hackett Road Farm, Freeland, MI
Death: 21 Aug 1956
Burial: Beyer Family Plot at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church Cemetery, Freeland, MI

Children:
Agnes
Esther
Anna
Luella

Johanna Louisa WEGNER

Birth: 25 Jul 1848, Pommerina, Germany
Death: 25 Apr 1918
Father: Karl WEGNER (1822-)
Mother: Anna GOLLNAW (1815-1892)

Ernst Carl Henry (Heinrich) BEYER
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Birth: 4 Mar 1874, Hackett Road Farm, Freeland, MI
Death: 21 Aug 1956
Burial: Beyer Family Plot at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church Cemetery, Freeland, MI


Children:
Agnes
Esther
Anna
Luella

Agnes BEYER
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Died: October 31, 1983
Father: Ernst Carl Henry (Heinrich) BEYER (1874-1956)
Mother: Louisa Johanna SCHLICKER (1884-1979)

Henry WEBER
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Birth: 14 Mar 1905, Tittabawassee Twp, MI
Death: 21 Jun 1989, Sun City, Arizona
Father: George Frederick WEBER (1874-1938)
Mother: Magdelena Rosina TACKMAN (1881-1946)

Spouse: Agnes BEYER1,2
Father: Ernst Carl Henry (Heinrich) BEYER (1874-1956)
Mother: Louisa Johanna SCHLICKER (1884-1979)
Marr: 16 Apr 1933

Spouse: Gladys SMITH, New York
Spouse: Beulah Spear, Arizona

Children:
Lois d 2008
3 sons living