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
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...
Campers and Council Fires: My 65 Years at Summer Camp
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 Culver Military Academy summer program in Culver, Indiana. As a kid I always enjoyed going to YMCA camp and...
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...
They Did it His Way
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, enthusiastic drivers and had a prime seat high in the stands, next to the finish line. When my brother-in-...Did you know?
A study published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine suggests that engaging in legacy activities like scrapbooking and story sharing can increase family communication and reduce stress for caregivers to chronically ill individuals. Caregivers reported less stress and patients reported decreased breathing difficulty and increased religious meaning.
Read more here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2664509/
