727 McIndoe Street: Dinon's Wausau home (Present day: Google Maps Street View) It was the Spring of 1942 when the Boyer family moved 1,200 miles from Nahant, MA to Wausau, WI. My grandfather, Dinon, was 10 years old at the time, and lived with his family in a huge white house on McIndoe Street. He...
In the Spring of 1942, just a few short months after Pearl Harbor, my 10-year-old grandfather and his family moved 1,200 miles from Nahant, MA to Wausau, WI. His parents, my great-grandparents Ralph and Babe, had taken on a lot more responsibility in the 12 years since their 1930 marriage. Not only did they...
We were still living in Florida when Dennis and I went down to the Ditch to go fishing. Dennis was in Kindergarten and we would go after he got home from school. He only went to school for half a day so it must have been Kindergarten. We were not supposed...
I didn't think so at the time but my life was truly blessed as a child. My brother and I ran away, I was 12 and he was 14. We lived in Port Jefferson, NY above a little grocery store. On my way to school each morning I would tear a...
We lived in Florida in another trailer park when I was about 7 or 8 years old. After school we played King of the Mountain, Cops and Robbers, Hide and Seek. We stayed out until it started to get dark. One of the teenage girls in the park referred to her parents as Sir...
When Dennis was in Kindergarten we lived in a trailer park in Florida. I played with a little girl that had "Shirley Temple" curls. Oh how I wanted curly hair. Everyday her Mom would comb out each curl one at a time. I used to think how fun that must be. ...
My first day of school was a little traumatic. We were living with the family that had a dog with different color eyes. They were an older couple. The lady peeled potatoes every afternoon. She would open a brown paper bag and spread it out on the table. Then she would...
My earliest childhood memory is being in a hospital. My mother had gone away on a trip with one of her boyfriends. I was with a sitter and ended up with a severe case of meloncoly, otherwise known as depression in children. I ended up in the hospital for two and a half months....
On the first day of 1942, my great-grandfather, Ralph Boyer, was living in Nahant, MA with his two young sons and pregnant wife, Babe. Three weeks before, Pearl Harbor had been bombed and the United States had declared war. By the spring of 1942, Ralph had accepted a new job...
In 1930, Ralph and his new bride, Babe, moved to Pittsfield, Massachusetts so that Ralph could begin his new job as a chemical engineer for General Electric's plastic division. In 1936, my great-grandfather Ralph was transferred to General Electric's plant in Lynn. So he picked up his pregnant wife and preschool son,...
One thing I have learned to never under-estimate is the power of old family photos. The emotional impact, and story-telling power, of a single photo is always incredible to me, even when the photos are of another person's family. So imagine how hard it was for me to breathe when...
I was born on March 28, 1950 at 9:30 A.M.. at the City Hospital in Manhattan, New York. Better known as "Welfare Island". My mother, Alta Virginia, aka Bunny, lived at 311 West 94th Street in New York City. Her maiden name was Beach. Mom was 24 years old at the...
Home The memory comforts me Home, a house set in a garden, abounding in seasonal colors and fragrances A mixture of old and new- wood, glass and trim The back yard-tall pines Fresh fallen pine needles Its essence, the purring of the attic fan On a hot summer night...
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In my spare time I do some volunteer work as a secretary for a fairly large church organization. There is always someone to do for, as there was one day recently. I arrived late, and I found a little girl quietly minding her...
FUR My wife and I had wanted a little piece of farm land for years, and we ended up buying a 14 acre piece which was crowned with the biggest mistake of our marriage: a small, used double-wide mobile home. Now, don't take offense, ye salespersons of "manufactured...
I have a special memory of my first pet when I was 10 years old. Her name was Gigi. I have no idea how I came up with that name. Gigi was part poodle and who knows what else, maybe terrier. She was small and black with slightly curly hair and...
Ruth reminices about how her oldest brother, Ted, would get old clunkers with a rumble seat to fix up, and when they were in the backyard on Seventh East and later on Bryan Avenue in Salt Lake City how they would "stargaze" at night (and in the summer daytimes she and...
Ruth tells of activities of her brothers Ted and Hank who were in their teens when she was in her early childhood, and how she worried about their involvement with the streetcars that ran in front of their home on Seventh East in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Ruth remembers how she and her older brother, Joseph, would walk to Nibley Park, Salt Lake City Utah and fish in the lake at the golf course when she was about eight years old. Joseph was three years older.
