Red Dots, Guinea Pigs & Tonsillectomies
Othello's main industry was the Railroad. Employees and their families could travel by train on a pass, which meant no transportation expense. Few families owned an automobile in those days,…
These are the letters, stories, memoirs, commentaries. and talks (written work except for journals and histories) created by our family– us, our ancestors, and our posterity.
That Place Called School
I could hardly wait to start school. When I did get to go skipping along between my big brothers, it was an exciting and happy day in my life. I…
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The Donley
Today in Othello, there's a building called "The Old Hotel Art Gallery."? A certain group in the community have attended to keeping this building in its original form as much…
Let’s Go Downtown
I went downtown long before Petula Clark made the song "Downtown" a pop hit.? My family lived on the hill in Othello and the business part of town laid below…
My Mama, My Mom, My Mother
By Lena Marie Hodson Clark? written about 1995. I have found it difficult to sit down and write about this parent of mine.? To just put down facts, etc.? So…
A Fiery Spirit
We were not old friends.? A chance meeting brought us together and our relationship developed over a period of two years.? Two small women in our early sixties, with different…
Later, Daddy
(In another time and place) My husband bent over me as he spoke.? I was stunned.? My body sank deeper into the couch.? He was holding on to my arms…
Daddy
Many people influence us during our lifetime -our parents, our siblings, special teachers and certain friends.? However, there has never been any question in my mind as to who influenced…
Darwin on 1 Nephi 3
1 Nephi 3:2? ? 2013-07-15 20:53:14? ? Darwin wrote the following: Lehi uses an expression that seems a little odd. "I have dreamed a dream." In English normally we would…
Darwin on 1 Nephi 2
1 Nephi 2:1 2013-06=24 21:12:10? Darwin wrote the following: Lehi has another dream in which the Lord tells him he is blessed because of what he has done. Some of…