October 19, 2010
Then and Now
Introduction 
*************************************************************************This may strike you as a little odd…..….putting the “Introduction” here after starting my Book Blog a couple of Blogs ago. Well, I write like I think and I am told that there is an advantage to doing it that way so that is all I want to say about that! ( It’s called “writing in voice”)
This Blog Series is actually my autobiography. Some of you may be getting some of this a second time so forgive me for repeating myself.
I renamed the Book, “One Toe in Heaven…and the rest in the kitchen” to LILAGCS (Life is like a Grilled Cheese Sandwich) for a reason. I will reveal that reason at the end of the Blog Series.
All of the stories here are true or as close to being true as I can remember. Some names I have changed to protect the privacy of people who may not have been told I was going to use their name in the book. So without any more rambling…. I will begin and please remember to make comments at the bottom and/or sign the Guestbook at the right side of this Blog (Just hit your browser’s return arrow at the top of your browser to return to the Blog).
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Growing up in Spencer, Iowa
I look back on my childhood in a very positive way. Growing up in a small northwest Iowa town was a good experience I believe.
As I look back, I remember my hometown at birth was Spencer, Iowa. It had a population of somewhere around 7,000 people as I recall. That was in 1941. I found a photograph of Spencer’s Main street looking south that you see here
Born During a Thunderstorm
It was 9:00 PM on August 21, 1941. Dr. Charles Collester had just been notified that a lady under his care was about to deliver a baby. The weather outside was very stormy. The lighting lit up the night skies over the Spencer Municipal Hospital as the thunder rumbled out side.
At exactly 9:15 PM a baby boy was delivered to Leah Logan. Her best friend, Gertrude Ann Mack had flown back from her WAC (Woman’s Army Corp.) headquarters in California to assist the doctor with the delivery.
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