A Blessed Life (11) Teen years are easier when life is simpler. At least that was my experience. Life centered around farm work, school and church. I can truly say in the words of the …

A Blessed Life (9) Shortly after my baptism our family started attending Mt. Carmel Christian Church. It was located only a couple miles from our home. Since the move to Bourbon County, we had been …

A Blessed Life (8) Summertime meant two things for sure. Little League baseball and Revival Meeting were as certain as summer itself. July of 1957 marked my eleventh birthday, second year of organized baseball, and …

A Blessed Life (10) The spring of 1959, marked another milestone in my life. In May of that year I graduated from eighth grade at Center Hill School. By the end of summer I would …

The move to Bourbon County in 1954 meant a change in schools. We moved at mid-term of my second grade school year. Center Hill School was a much larger and nicer brick facility with an …

January, 1954, marked the third move in the first eight years of my life. This move, however, was the only one that took the family out of Harrison County. From living way back a narrow …

My formal schooling began at age six in the first grade at Renaker Elementary School in the western end of Harrison County. It offered grades one through eight. Miss McKinley was the first grade teacher …

Farm life was all I ever knew from the time I was a youngster until I went away to college. My father was a tenant farmer, and tobacco was literally our financial lifeline. That crop …

The women were quiet. Women working together had never been so quiet. They prepared the spices, moving silently and slowly around the house. They gathered the essential oils and put them in jars to carry …

After five years of being an only child, things changed. My sister, Mary Edna, was born July 4, 1951. With a five year age difference, and her being a girl, I continued to be a …