I WANT TO BE JUST LIKE THEM WHEN I GROW UP
By Cheryl Biver Brunsmann
My name is Cheryl Brunsmann. I was born in 1961 and raised south of Belleville IL. The farm I was raised on is almost directly across from Belleville West High ... Read More...
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TO SEE A SMILE ON THEIR FACE
By Chuck Polleschultz
My name is Charles Polleschultz, III. I was born in St. Louis in 1946. One of three children, I was the oldest with two sisters. My father worked at McDonald... Read More...
MY PRACTICE IS MY MINISTRY
By Dr. Lance Parish-Martin, DMD
THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE SMELLYI was born in 1968, in St. Louis, Mo. Today, we would call it a free-range childhood. We lived in an urban area (which... Read More...
IF YOU SEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING
By June Brown
My name is June Brown. I was born in November 1940 in St Louis MO. My dad was a butcher, and mother was a stay-at-home mom. I had four siblings. We lived in... Read More...
TOMORROW CAN ALWAYS BE A BETTER DAY
By Rev. Dr. Avery Duff
I was born in Sept of 1960 in East St. Louis Illinois. It was a very interesting time,and difficult time, in East St. Louis. We stayed on a street where we... Read More...
BLENDING FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
By Angie Eckert
My name is Angie Eckert, born in Belleville IL, I married in to the Eckert Family.I learned about Eckert’s just as most members of the community do. I ... Read More...
AN UNPLANNED LIFE
By Adele Moore
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 “... Read More...
Following the Heart
By Carol Chairito
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...