She was Aunt Martha to me, even though she was really a second cousin and best friend to my Grandma Stamps. Back in the Good Old Days, "Aunt" and "Uncle" were designations given to just about anyone who was an adult and whose relationship to us was too close to warrant "Mister" or "Missus."
Our September Issue
FENCE-POST CARVINGS
Times were difficult, but there was always enough to share with others who were less fortunate.
SKIPPY
The black-and-white dog wandered into her life and stayed forever in her heart.
A GRANDPA'S INFLUENCE
This wonderful man shaped her life more than she realized.
SEWING LESSONS
Her talented mother kept her family dressed in style.
Dear Looking Back Friends,
A few summers ago Janice and I decided that we would finally have to replace the siding on the old home place. The siding had been there over 40 years, but it had finally succumbed to bouts of winter storms, summer heat and intermittent termite attacks, so we decided we would replace it with that newfangled vinyl siding.
Fence-Post Carvings
In the 1940s in South Texas where I grew up, the Great Depression was still touching people's lives. Our town was too small to be helped by those jobs in defense plants keeping the war effort supplied. Danbury was basically a farming community, and its residents struggled to survive.
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