When we went to visit our Aunt and Uncle, we also stopped at Don and Evelyn Chisum’s home. It was a post-Victorian building with three bedrooms and a full bathroom upstairs and a master bedroom, another full bathroom, kitchen, dining and living room on the bottom floor. During one visit, Dad went upstairs to use…

Mom and dad were going to a function at the airbase. For the event mom went out and purchased a bright red dress. They left the house at around six that evening and returned before jus’ 11 o’clock that night. Both looked nice as they left for the evening. Dad was first through the door.…

Mom and Dad were gone for the day. They left Adam and I with Ma and Pa Sanders. We were forbidden to return to our home for any reason. However we disobeyed because we wanted to play with our new roller skates. The two of us roller skated up and down Redwood Drive and in…

For three months, I worked at the Requa Inn. I was filling in for my brother, Adam after he broke his arm in a bicycle accident. At first Adam tried to blame Dad for breaking his arm. That’s because Dad grabbed it after Adam attempted to stab me with a dinner fork. Dr. Kasper said it…

Mom and Dad had spent three months paneling the living room and hallway. They also put squares of gold-veined mirror up in the front room hoping to make the area look bigger. One of the extra things they did was to mount into the wall an old piece of ship’s timber that acted as a…

One of the first photographs I ever took was of the stop-sign and telephone pole where Redwood Drive intersects with U.S. 101 in Klamath. I grew up in a home on Redwood Drive and anytime we went anywhere, we had to use that singular intersection to leave our neighborhood. My parents bought me a Kodak…

One of my part-time jobs was working as a summer-school teacher. The position turned out to require more interpersonal skill than I had at the time. One afternoon I watched as a kid on a motorcycle raced around the playground while students were outside playing. I stopped him and told him he couldn’t be on…

Mary and Russ Thompson had been visiting the area for years. They came to spend their summertime fishing for salmon and they always parked their travel trailer in space right behind our home at Camp Marigold. We came to know them a few years earlier and when they were in town, we often invited them…

The weather was wonderful for a winter-day in Northern Nevada, as last year at this time the region was covered in a blanket of snow. It was also made wonderful by the fact that the state’s constitution was in full swing and anyone who wanted to watch it operate was allowed to do so. For…

My junior year civic’s class teacher was a Jules Legier.  One guy, two unusual names in a school full of Bob’s, Bill’s and Tom’s. One day Mr. Legier chastised the entire class for not being able to spell “Crescent City.”  Evidently some of the students were having difficulty with the proper name of the town. He…