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From: William A Harrison <>
Subject: Re: [MOATCHIS] Sharing Atchison Co. -Stories
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:25:02 -0600


Kathy,

It was an excellent recollection of your time in the past! The only
thing I missed was seeing names, locations and dates

Bill Harrison

On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:48:47 -0500 "K R Edwards" <>
writes:
> Think it would be a lot of fun to start a chain of stories about our
>
> relatives or ourselves that lived in Atchison County. It has a long
> & rich
> history. There were lots of things, good and bad that have happened,
> so lets
> have some fun and share these stories. I take no responsibility for
> what my
> relatives have done, Good or Bad,
>
> Having lived in major US cities all my life it is fun to reminisce
> sometimes
> about the fond memories that I have experienced over my 70+ years. I
> will
> start by telling one of the most wonderful personal memories that I
> have
> from my childhood in Tarkio.
>
> Kathy Ross Edwards
> =========================================================
> My father was working in Detroit and our mother had to have surgery,
> so the
> logical solution was for two young sisters to go live with their
> grandparents for a while, until she recovered. Betsy and I didn't
> put up any
> fuss as we had spent many wonderful summers on the Clayton Scott
> farm in
> years past.
>
> That fall we were entered into the Centerview Country School just up
> the
> road. Never having been to a one room school was a little
> disconcerting at
> first but became a favorite memory of my lifetime.
>
> If we arrived at school too early, we had to wait until the teacher
> let us
> all in. Everyone was very impressed when a schoolmate whose farm was
> across
> the road, would occasionally ride his horse to school. No kids
> driving cars
> to school back then.
>
> When the day started, the teacher seemed to have all of us under
> control and
> very busy studying. The special smell of the books in that school
> still
> lingers in my memory. It was a wonderful experience to be able to
> get
> glimpses of what the upper classes were doing when I was finished
> with my
> assignments.
>
> The only break the teacher got was when it was time for recess. My
> memory of
> recess was that it was a free-for-all.
>
> Diving into our lunches at lunchtime, was a particularly memorable
> occasion
> because I never knew what delicacies my grandmother had created for
> me.
> Those wonderful sandwiches of homemade bread & canned meats, potato
> chips
> that had been freshly made that morning, topped off usually with
> very tasty
> cookies or a piece of cake. All homemade.
>
> On the way home one day I found a rattlesnake skin and dragged it
> home,
> thinking I would have some fun and tease my grandmother, who was
> terrified
> of rattlesnake's. That night when gram came in to say good night, I
> quickly
> crawled under the bed and pushed the snakeskin out from under the
> bed as she
> came in. Needless to say the memory of her scream lingers to this
> day.
> "CLAYTON COME IN HERE QUICK WITH A HOE, THERE'S A SNAKE UNDER THE
> BED". I
> was fortunate to be her grandchild and didn't have problems sitting
> the next
> day. She had the patience of an angel.
>
> Fall came along and the time when the men gathered to help each
> other bring
> in the harvest. The ladies lovingly prepared the food that was
> shared at
> suppertime. Don't think that I have seen tables laden with that much
> food
> since.
>
> After the harvest we started looking forward to the Christmas
> season. Spare
> time was spent rehearsing for the Christmas Program for which we
> would all
> be participating, in front of our parents and grandparents. What a
> disappointment it was for me when I got the flu the day before the
> Christmas
> Program, because our father had flown in from Detroit to see it and
> spend
> the holidays. But I still received a red wagon for Christmas.
>
> Such a short time in my life span, but what great memories of that
> time so
> many years ago.
>
> I am not a very good storyteller, but what say you ?
>
>
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