My grandfather Mitchell hailed coal for a living. He would drive his truck to the mine and get load and deliver it around town to his customers. As best I can remember, he didn’t work every weekday, but never seemed to be […]

My three kids have been eaters of about anything that is put before them. I remember my brother growing up was a really picky eater, disrupting meals with his stubbornness. After a tour in the Marines, he would eat anything. He was […]

As best as I can remember, in 1978 I was coaching a Midget hockey team. It was composed of boys 15 and 16 years old. I really don’t remember what our record was that year, but I believe it was a good […]

My parents had been saving money to build a house. They were renting until they could start this project. They finally felt they had enough to get started and purchased an acre of land on the outskirts of Evansville, Indiana. They didn’t […]

I entered the U.S.Marines in September 1956. After finishing boot Camp I was sent To Camp Pendleton for infantry training. This was in January 1957. our training centered around the taking of Vietnamese villages. We know the involvement of the U.S. in […]

Martha and I paid for our kid’s college education. It wasn’t easy, but we managed to do it. Dan and Julie were only two years apart, so Julie went to the local community college for her first two years. This was a […]

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 […]