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And get back to my autobiotweet.
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Now I have to find material.
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Finally got my 'SouthofTonight' blog up and ... kinda running. http://is.gd/3xoK
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Learned that my great-grandmother may have shot & killed my great-grandfather. Reported as acc. suicide due prominence of family in city.
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My father has left. http://www.deltagypsy.com/
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... Elmer the Elephant and of course Howdy Doody with Clarabelle and Buffalo Bob.
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Watched some good kids shows on the telly. Bozo the Clown...
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Cicero was always hot and muggy. Thought it smelled of coal.
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Some Cicero summer weeks spent in Crystal Lake, IL. with three cousins. Penny hikes and swimming in the lake. Lots of P&J sandwiches.
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Some summers of my "ute" were spent in Cicero and others in Nebraska.
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Sent many hot summers staying with grandparents Z in Cicero while my parents returned to university to get their Masters in Ed.
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They were all in Berwyn, Ill.
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Saw photos of all the homes where my dad and his siblings lived while growing up. His sister Ginny visited them all and sent great photos.
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Dad told me that his dad made dandelion wine and beer in their basement in Berwyn.
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Remember many many hollyhocks blooming behind the Legion house. Grandparents Foreman had a large print of Custer's Last Stand in kitchen.
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Grandpa Foreman came home one day with a brand new 59 pink Cadillac. Soo cooool.
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Remember the cooing of the numerous mourning doves in the large elm trees. Lots of elms, long before Dutch elm disease was prevalent.
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Guess that was what Boy Scout knives were for.
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Exeter has a great small place to spend summers in the 50s. Learned to play mumblety peg (http://is.gd/hJi) from codger in the neighborhood.
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Remember finding 100s of checks in a very old dental office being demolished in this small NE town, called Exeter. Used checks as play money
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