Living here at Wesley Willows is quite interesting. From the drinks on the driveway every friday in good weather to the many shows and entertainment they have for us. They also have a way of finding out who has an interesting background […]
When Martha accepted the position of managing the Beloit Visitor and Convention Bureau, it was at first a new job. However, as time went on she fell totally in love with Beloit. We even looked a ways to move to Beloit, but […]
A friend of mine who has passed on told me many years ago that when he was eight years old he decided there is no God. I don’t know the logic of determination that he used to get there, but he maintained […]
When I was 8 years old there was a free program offered by the YMCA in Evansville IN to learn to swim. I have no idea whether it was promoted by public funds or just a community gift by the Y. However, […]
When Martha and I decided to sell our house and move to Wesley Willows we wondered what we were going to do with all the stuff we had accumulated over the years. We were moving from a 2500 square foot house plus […]
When Martha, my wife and best friend passed away two and half years ago, my daughters thought I would just waste away. I was truly sadder than I have ever been in my life but was able to cope. So, when I […]
You never hear of this anymore. I remember when our church used to make big caldrons of it and put it into mason jars and sell them. As best as my memories goes, we would start making it on Friday so it […]
I remember visits to my mother’s mother in the late 40s and early 50s. We lived in Evansville Indiana, and she lived in Tell City Indiana. It is about 50 miles between the two cities. We would know for several weeks that […]
I was born in 1938 and really grew up in the 50s. During the 40s I saw a lot of flying aircraft as P-47s were built for the war effort in Evansville. I never thought about flying on an airplane. I assumed […]
Back in my boy Scout days, a small group of us agreed to walk the Lincoln trails. These were three Hiking paths in Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois. The Kentucky Boy Scout Lincoln Trail hike was a 33-mile trek that ran annually from […]