Don’t nitpick me on this date, I wasn’t very old at the time. You will have to remember that I was nine at the time. However, I think it is close. World War 2 had ended, and the troops were back home. […]

As kids we had a pet dog. The dog’s name was Butch, and he was a terrier breed, although a little broader in the chest. This suggest there was some other mix in the breed. It kind of fit our family heritage, […]

I remember some of the visits to my maternal grandmother in Tell City Indiana when i was very young. We three kids had to put up with the hugs and kisses of our grandmother and great aunt Pauline. There wasn’t a lot […]

Yesterday I had lunch with Roger and Eileen Kimber. Roger and I worked at Bell Labs in 60s. It brought back a flood of memories of the four years I spent there. It was only years later that I discovered that I […]

When I was growing up, once a year there would be a paper drive. My memories are a little clouded, but I will try to tell as best as I can remember. They weren’t always done by the same groups. Sometimes it […]

The great Chicago fire on October 8, 1871, was a terrible event. Three hundred people died in the fire. It burned an a rea of 3.3 square miles which included over 17,000 structures and left over 100,000 people homeless. The story goes […]

When we would go to Tell City to visit our grandmother, sometimes we went to see my Uncle Frank at his farm. Saying it was his farm is a bit of q misnomer. They were sharecroppers. It is funny that I thought […]

Growing up in Evansville Indiana, we would have our annual trip to visit Grandma Rothgerber. The trip between Evansville and Tell City was only 50 miles, but preparing for it was quite a ordeal. Not for us kid, but for Mom and […]

I remember when I was still a boy scout and my brother Bob who was one year older became an explorer scout. The reason for remembering this is that a family by the name of Waible had some number of acres of […]

When out oldest daughter Julie was working at the Park District summer camp she saw something out on the road. A car driving down the road slowed down and then proceeded to toss a puppy dog out. It then sped off in […]