I was born June 14, 1949 in Granite City, Illinois, one of three children. During the depression a large segment of folks from in and around Dover, Tennessee “m... Read More...
Born in Wray, Colorado, a little farm and ranch community in eastern Colorado when my birth mother gave me up for adoption. I was taken from the hospital to wha... Read More...
My name is Diana Gunther-Legate, born in Granite City Il in 1962. My favorite childhood games were when we would go to my grandmothers house. My cousins used to... Read More...
In August, when my brother Greg was 11 and I was 13, he and his 4-H project, Suffolk sheep, won a trip to the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas, a small town in the... Read More...
Hello! Issue 3 of The Family Historian Journal Radio program airs tonight. Click here to listen live or download for later. Enjoy listening to the great stories... Read More...
I worked at Bowl Land in Granite City, Illinois, for 36 years. When my daughter, Terri Bast, bought the bar down the road from Bowl Land I pitched in to help. T... Read More...
In the summertime, there were 3 or 4 of us girls and we each would get a card table and put it up in the backyard and get a bedspread and put over it and nail i... Read More...
I think it was 1951. I was looking for a summer job and a high school teacher in the small town in Western Michigan where I lived suggested I apply to the Culve... Read More...
Story shared by Julie McFarland (Sandi’s Daughter) Gene proposed in the driveway of Sandi’s house. Here is what happened in Sandi’s own words...
“Gene had the ... Read More...
My brother-in- law, Jack Holden, was a regular at Tri-City Speedway in Granite City, Illinois. He loved watching people race cars. He sponsored several young, e... Read More...
I remember when I was smaller, when I’d be walking in the park with my grandmother or sitting in her living room, we’d talk about our family. I used to love hea... Read More...
Irene Leland
My mother is Dorothy Leland Follansbee, quite an unusual and striking woman. She was a dichotomy of high caliber poise and graciousness on the ... Read More...
