Where Are They? Past Members of Our Class No One Knows About…..
“Whatever happened to So-and-So?” we’d ask and no one seemed to know. In fact, our sleuthing reunion detectives (and we had some really good ones,) couldn’t find these class members—no matter what. I was on two reunion committees, but since husband and I lived away, in North Carolina, through a meaty time of reunion preparation…
Mondos and Colleeges
Mondos…and Colleges (pronounced “Col-leeges”) Photo of Future Nurses is from ‘63 Chronicle (Deering High School) yearbook. I’m in back row, far left. Yep, if you ever watched “Happy Days,” you knew there were at least two major groups in any high school, in the 50’s and 60’s—the Mondos with their slicked back hair,…
To Me, He Looked Like Elliott Ness of “Untouchables” fame…
Oh, you know—the good guy…the one who went after the mob…the thugs…the ones selling the booze, shady women, drugs or other illegal substances in the period of the Depression. Yep, that’s what I thought. To me, my Dad, John J. Kelly, looked like the actor Robert Stack, who reincarnated the crime-fighting Federal agent, Eliot…
The Bridges of West Warwick
If the 19 original Bridges of Madison County, Iowa (immortalized in a book by the same name by Robert James Waller and its subsequent movie,) were covered, wooden affairs, those that spanned rivers in West Warwick, in an earlier era, were red or green metal, with wooden slats across the roadway. I know that…
A Note to Readers….
Does Asheville as Retirement Town deserve its star billing? In short, does it really have a leg up on its competition? I know…all the talk about West Warwick on this site might almost get you to think I’m not writing about my husband’s and my experience, living in Asheville for past nine years. But I…
Poliomyelitis and ‘the Gun:’ a West Warwick Girl’s Memories of Life in the 50’a and 60’s
It’s street name? Polio. It’s what scared us to death in my growing up years of the 50’s. Its advent and its conquering was what got vaccination its well-deserved recognition as life-saver…at least in that time period. Polio was as feared in its day as AIDS would be decades later. Or the zika virus which…
