Monthly Archives: December 2013

When we moved back to Forest Hill, for a change dad was with us, so we rented a house just south of town. It was nothing spectacular, but it gave Richard, my bother, and me access to woods filled with … Continue reading →

Dad’s job in the Tioga area didn’t last long. I never knew why he changed jobs so often, but he found a new job with an oil company (ESSO, I think) outside of Baton Rouge. We stayed with my grandmother … Continue reading →

Mom and Dad were both from Louisiana and my Grandmother Tannehill lived there, so we tended to gravitate back on a fairly regular basis. Dad was drafted during World War II and served in the Corps of Engineers in the … Continue reading →

I was born in Winchester, Kentucky on July 18th, 1938. I learned from my parents that at the time my dad was working for the Missouri Pacific Railroad building bridges. We were quite literally living in a box car. I … Continue reading →