Writings of Lee Clark

I wish to offer my sincere gratitude and a special “thank you” to my daughter, Vicki Lee, who encouraged me to begin to write.? She loved every one of these

I was born Lena Marie Hodson on September 23, 1925 in the family home in Othello, Washington.? What I like to refer to as my original support group included, my

Unusual names abound in my family.? My grandmother’s full name was Fanna-Fi-Lena.? Try that nomen on for size.? I’m not even sure how to spell it.? Called Fanny during her

We had a family room before anyone called them “family rooms.”? Sometime after my parents bought our home, Daddy built a large room across the back of it.? we called

A kitchen window can be a marvelous place to look into the world and watch slices of life being lived.   Mom was a kitchen person. She liked to cook and

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

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

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

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,

I always gave God credit for the piano that came to me and felt it was through His grace I was given the opportunity to learn to play it.? However,

One of the dictionary meanings for the word “cupola” reads, “any small structure above the roof of a building.”  The caboose, or last car of a train, is the one