Monthly Archives: June 2020

June 3, 2020 Tales of Our Childhood from Jane Hilder.   I was born in Bay Shore, New York, in March 1948. My parents were Peter Hilder and Aimee Carlile. My family lived in the village of Brightwaters, which was about halfway out on the south shore of Long Island. We lived in an older […]

May 26, 2020 A story from Don Jackson’s youth.   Family Stories Are Not Always True                My grandmother (Grannie), Isla Ward Buster, was born in 1900, one of eleven children, on a farm in central Texas.  The last thirteen years of her life, she lived with me and my family.  Although she told […]

May 22, 2020 A story from her youth by Diana Pulver.   Playing Hide and Go Seek   Until I was 10 years old, I lived in a five-room apartment attached to a Sundries Store.  A Sundries Store was an early version of Walgreens or CVS without the pharmacy and with a soda fountain/luncheonette.  It […]

 May 20, 2020 Here a story of his youth from Don Jackson.   I Wish I Had Asked More Questions!         I, Donald L. Jackson, was born in December 1940 in Lubbock, Texas to young parents who were struggling to find their place in the world and looking for opportunities to build a future.  […]

May 19, 2020 Here is a story from my Mom’s youth that I compiled before she died in 2002.   Stories of our Youth from Mary Ellen Hall Hyde   ​Rowland, Mary, Peg, Gravatt, and John Hall I Lost My Dress! By Mary Ellen Hall Hyde (1920-2002) as told to her son Dan   One […]

May 16, 2020 Stories of our Youth from Gayle Robey.   My Crocheted Dress When I was very young, my step-grandmother, Catherine Jackson, wife of my maternal grandfather, Leslie Jackson, crocheted a beautiful pink dress for me. It was worn by me before I was 2 years old and a portrait was taken in black […]

May 11, 2020 A story of his youth from Evan Rohrbough.   Thought I would share a memory. At 2:30 AM this morning [Sunday May 10, 2020], I was driving home from Susan’s house in San Jose, California. It is normally an uneventful five mile trip from her home to mine. Particularly so now with […]

May 10, 2020 Stories of our youth from Larry Francis.      When I grew up in Alexandria, VA I became interested in the Boy Scouts.  About the time I turned the age of ten or eleven, I joined a local troop.  Over the years I enjoyed many campouts, hikes, and other activities.  I had the […]

 April 27, 2020 More stories from my sister Nancy Hyde Seyfried.   Grandpa and Grandma Hall       My maternal grandparents lived across the river, up a dirt road, on the side of a big hill, outside of Tioga, PA. Grandpa Hall (Charles Rowland Hall, a descendant of Col. George Jackson) was born in Kentucky […]

April 21, 2020 Stories of our youth from Dan Hyde   Determination!   At about six years old, I desperately wanted to ride my older brother’s full size two-wheel bicycle.  I learned to ride it but I had a BIG problem!  My legs were too short for my feet to touch the ground!  How to stop and […]