Ramikins, Crystal’s Favorite Animal

Ramikins, Crystal’s Favorite Animal

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 center of the state. Oh, the stories he told after his weeklong adventure. Gosh, I wanted to participate in...
Sue’s Corner

Sue’s Corner

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. The two of us worked hard to make it successful along with more help from my other daughter and Terri’s...
Summer Fun in the Back Yard

Summer Fun in the Back Yard

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 it into the grass and that was our tent, our home, and we would have our little dolls in there.  The baby’s...
Sandi’s Wedding Proposal

Sandi’s Wedding Proposal

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 ring in the opened box sitting in the glove compartment and he kept trying to get me to open the door. He...