Jane, go to the Macon Co. site and look at page 11 in the photos. The lighthouse picture is there. It is not very good as it was from a newspaper. It is the best I have came up with so far. You can save it to your computer and then print it off. Helen in Idaho > > From: JJJSG@aol.com > Date: 2004/01/16 Fri PM 07:19:21 PST > To: ILMACON-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ILMACON] Durfee School > > Helen, you have a picture of the Lighthouse? That's where my mother worked > from the time she was a young girl until she married a a handsome young man she > met at the Lighthouse, a young man who became a Navy pilot in World War II > and then a Marine Pilot in the Korean Conflict. He served with Ed McMahon. Of > course, it was my dad! My mother once made one of her younger sisters take > off her new pair of shoes and walk home from the Lighthouse because she came > there dressed in my mother's new dress and shoes (before she even got to wear > them!). Mother said it was in the dead of winter too! I would love to have a > picture of the Lighthouse. I too went there as a young girl and visited with > Henry Bowder. > > The ice skating rink used to be in Fairview Park where we fed the ducks and > bears too. Scovil Gardens was on the other side of the lake. We used to love > going to the Avon and Lincoln Theatre, but couldn't afford to go many times. > We went to Decatur to sell eggs, vegetables from the garden and visit our > grandparents after we went to Piggly Wiggly. (I babysat four brothers and sisters > in the car while Mother went in and sold her eggs.) It's really funny > thinking about those times and for the first time comparing them to my > greatgrandfather who had a huckster wagon business (3 wagons and a warehouse) in Blue > Mound. He lived on our family farm 2 miles west of Boody. Mother then bought and > ran the Mayview Cafe in Boody after Dad died. I worked there from the age of > 12 for Guy and Anna Bocock until I was about 17. Then moved up in the world > to the Colonial Restaurant. > > Yes, the buses still run, but they seem to always be going north. I love > driving down by the Transfer House. Some of my favorite history photos are of > the Transfer House in the good ol' days. I even have a charm on one of my old > charm bracelets of the Transfer House. > > If you could send me a copy of the picture of the Lighthouse, I would be so > appreciative. I often think of you in Idaho and wonder if the snow is still as > beautiful as it was the three years we were stationed in Idaho Falls. I was > hoping to see some snow here in Walters, Oklahoma, where we just moved, but no > such luck yet. Lots of rain this week, but almost 60 degrees. > > Thanks for the memories everyone. Jane Meisenhelter Griffin > jjjsg@aol.com > > > > ==== ILMACON Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the list send a message to: ILMACON-L-request@rootsweb.com with unsubscribe as the subject. > To unsubscribe from the digest send a message to: ILMACON-D-request@rootsweb.com with unsubscribe as the subject. > >