Sure enjoyed reading this! So many of the same things I've heard my parents and grandparents talk about. Certainly make you smile. :o) Patti In 1988 I ask my mother to write me stories about her brothers and sisters and the one about herself and her childhood growing upin Sedan, Chautauqua County, Kansas. She will soon be 82 years old and this is what she wrote for me at that time. The first one is about her. It will be in two parts for now and the rest that I will post will be what she wrote about her siblings. Freida My Early Years by Mary Alice (Puckett) Null Hoskins