Month: November 2012

These stories are in celebration of my brother-in-law Aaron (Big A) who turned 95 years old on Saturday. Please share with our email family.

My sister Alline says she cannot remember much about Aaron when he was very young because he didn’t attend the same school as she and Clarice. But Alline said she thought, and Donald agrees, that Aaron went to Knob Lick School on Bastin Creek. Old people in the community called it, the “Blue School.” Continue reading “Stories in celebration of my brother-in-law Aaron (Big A)”

As most of you know I like to drive around Casey County on roads where my passengers and I can look and reminisce. I especially love to go for car rides with my sister-in-law Deva. We like to drive out toward Willow Springs where she grew up. She has shown my sisters and me the old house where she lived when she was young and told us how she walked across the road to the Willow Springs School. In those days, she says she liked most of all to make playhouses with broken pieces of her mom’s dishes. Her early interest seems logical to me. All through her life, Deva has been making a beautiful home in more ways than one, I think. Continue reading “Sister-in-law Deva”