Stories from the Etchings on My Mind, Learning to Fly
THE BEGINNING. Living in the Mid-West in the late 20’s and 30’s, southern Illinois to be specific, our main news source was word of mouth for local news and newspapers […]
Category Archives: Growing Up
Stories of growing up in Illinois.
Rambling’s, Memories of Growing Up
My parents were married in Nashville, Illinois on 12 Sept. 1917. My brother Charles Hobart was born 26 Oct 1918. I was born 20 Jan. 1921, and my twin brother […]
Life at Ashley, Illinois 1925-1938
My family lived in a seven room frame house on the north end of town. There were six of us; my parents, my older brother, the twins, my brother and […]
Stories and memories of Col. Francis Harold Potter, USAF (1921-2009) 