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1961 - 1962
We were still living in New Castle, New Hampshire. Alan Shepard was the first American in space (what a long way we’ve come since then!), my youngest brother at the time turned two, and if we r...
1959 - 1960
I need to finish up 1959… ‘59 was when Alaska and Hawaii were admitted to the Union. We were living in New Castle, New Hampshire at the time in a house rented from…someone, and the next street o...
1958 - 1959
I guess 1959 was an active year - for the family, anyway. I was prolly in 1st grade and Mrs. Burdick was my teacher. (I seem to recall another first-grade class across the hall – did we have en...
1956 - 1958
From 1955 to, say, 1958, time is kinda lost. Somewhere in that time span: We moved from Bucks County, PA to Connecticut (‘Norton Village’?), but I think we only lived there for a few six months. ...
1955
I think this is where I pick up – no index visible to see where I left off. :-) I don’t remember much about ‘55 - not even that my first (of three) brothers showed up on May 17th! Some things I r...
1953-1954
Since I showed up pretty late in 1952, I have zero memories of 1953 and very few of 1954. However, I was two years old by Christmas of ‘54, and I remember my sister getting a play ‘supermarket’ (...
The Beginning
November 8, 1952; 7:14am. Harry Truman was President, Winston Churchill and other history-making individuals were alive, and World War II was still fresh in the memory of others. And that’s the d...
Book Description
AT THE WEDDING of a high-school friend’s daughter, I talked with the friend’s sister whom I hadn’t seen in forty-some years.
Amy asked what I’d been up to during that time, and her eyes got wide as I mentioned being in the Air Force, working on the Space Shuttle program, almost getting married (three times!), moving to Colorado, and some other stuff.
“You have done SO much!” was her reaction, and I thought, “Yeah, I guess I have!”
So - this Prosebox book will be my bio.
Let’s see where it goes…
