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Getting back to that night at the social, Donald came over to me and asked where Dora was. I told him Dora was at Ruth’s and that I had come to the social alone he hung around and when it was time to go home he said he would take me. Wilbur had already leftContinue reading “The Tragic Death of Woodrow Cupp, a Square Dance, & Lena Spiker’s Wedding.”

By the time spring came [1936], the timber cutter had moved on, the big trucks that had hauled the lumber away left the road with twenty inches deep ruts, even the buggy would drag it was almost impossible to travel. Father was again contacted to build another barn, he had the blueprints almost finished andContinue reading “Spring 1935 – The One Armed Man Albert, Did the Work of a Man With Two Good Arms.”

The fourth of the July came on a Sunday that year. After church that day, uncle Ray took aunt Rhea, uncle Oak (as we called aunt Rhea’s brother), Dora and I, to camp Dawson, an army base thirty miles away. The army was having an independence day celebration. Some of Uncle Ray’s old army buddiesContinue reading “1935 – Camp Dawson, & Making a Road Along Little Sandy Creek, Preston Cty. W.V.”

The next weekend Hazel asked mother if I could go home with her for the weekend? Mother said it was alright, but I would have to come home Sunday evening. Saturday afternoon as we were getting ready to leave, Dora came home. She was all excited, she had bought some new clothes with the moneyContinue reading “Hauling Corn All Day, and Dancing All Night”

Nila Grace Niner my best friend lived across the road from the church. I haven’t seen her since we had stopped going to school together. Nila belonged to my church but she seldom went because everyone said her mother was a witch. Nila’s mother and father didn’t live together, and often Mrs. Niner would haveContinue reading ““Let it Off Sister and Let the Lord Shine In.””

We didn’t have enough coal to heat the house for winter, a neighbor had opened a vein of coal on his farm, he told father he could have some coal if he would help with the digging. Father took Dora and I along the day he went to the mine. Father went in about oneContinue reading “Billy Boots, Bed Ticks, and the Last Night of Cherry Grove School”

Well school was over for another year, I was in the sixth grade and ten years old. I was five feet six inches tall and weighed ninety pounds. Now that Dora was through school, she was allowed to have boyfriends. Revival services began at the churches in the community. Dora and I went every nightContinue reading “Moldy Bread Would Have Saved Albert’s Arm.”

He was bigger than the usual riding horse, he came up to us and we petted him, Dora looked at his teeth and saw that he was about six years old. He sure was beautiful, I wished I had a horse like him to ride to school. Mother had taught us not to want forContinue reading “The Guthrie School 1780-1930- The Last Schoolday, After 150 Years, Preston County, West Virginia was Closing the One Room Schoolhouse for Good.”

I was hiding in the barn, when I heard a car driving into the yard, I looked out the barn window and saw three women, two men, and four kids get out of the car, they were relatives of fathers from Fairchance, PA they had two big dogs with them, as soon as the dogsContinue reading “Log Skidding, Barn building, Hog Beating, Square Dancing, Live Farm Auctions in Preston County W.V.”