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April 13, 2020 Stories of our youth from Nancy Hyde Seyfried (my older sister).   When I was about 18, my boyfriend Jim gave me a special doll the second Christmas we were dating. The 24-inch glamour doll had a beautiful pink ball gown with real pearl earrings and high heels. And in her evening […]

April 1, 2020 Stories from our youth from Larry Francis.   In 1945, my Mother and Father settled in Alexandria, Virginia, with my sister June and me. In 1948, a decision was made to send June and me to stay during the summer with my Grandparents, Ernest and Grace Queen on their farm on Brushy […]

March 31, 2020 Stories of our youth from Nancy Hyde Seyfried (Dan’s sister)   That pot-bellied stove was a character in a Hyde Halloween saga. I was probably 12 years old and Halloween was coming and Mom no longer sewed elaborate costumes out of crepe paper for me (You could buy patterns for costumes. Once […]

March 30, 2020 Another story of the youth of Bill Jackson.     This is a photograph of me (Bill Jackson) with my nephew Glen “Billy” Cowgill and this picture almost never was. My angelic sister Eleanor Ruth Jackson, Billy’s Mom, was almost never born.   My dad in 1915 worked in Pensacola, FL and […]

March 30, 2020 Stories from his youth from Chuck Hinkle, Jr.   I have enjoyed the many varied stories and can relate to several.   My father and his family were from West Virginia. He grew up in Grafton and the surrounding area. During my youth, we would go on road trips from our home […]

March 30, 2020 Another story from his youth from Bill Jackson.   I have a lot of stories about my youth. Here is another one.   My favorite room was the dining room where we had the only heat. I lived in a house that had a kitchen and dining room downstairs plus a half […]

March 30, 2020 Stories of our youth from Susan Buettner.   I spent more years being taught by nuns and Franciscan brothers than civilians. Every Friday we elementary school children were marched across the parking lot to the church so we could go to confession. One Friday, I was in 2nd or 3rd grade and […]

March 30, 2020 Stories of our youth from Nancy Jackson.   Her story is a follow up on her older brother Bill’s story about the serial killer Harry Powers.   Scary stuff! Dan —–   Google Harry Powers for more information about him. [Everyone should read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Powers — Dan]   The day before Harry Powers […]

March 29, 2020 Stories from our youth from Bill Jackson   We lived at 210 Quincy St. in Clarksburg, WV, one block up from Lynn Ave where Miss Strothers owned a small grocery store. It was probably her former living room. She sold mostly dry goods. My mother took me with her to pay her […]