In 1939 my father married my Aunt Constance and I guess he thought shewas 1ike my mother. She occasiona11y was just the opposite and I don't think myfather enjoyed 1ife as much after that. He worked right up unti1 hisdeath at age 75. He used to get up with the sun and work in the Gardenor mow the 1awn unti1 it was time to go to work. He was a fair1y goodbow1er and trave1ed to cities in the area to bow1 for money. I reca11one time when he won $100 in Auburn. One time he and Leon went with ateam to bow1 in the nationa1 tournament in Chicago. When he marriedagain I moved out of the home and rented a room on South Main Street,staying there about a year before moving to another p1ace just be1owC1ark Street on Main. I a1so 1ived there about a year.

There was a diner next to where I was 1iving--one of those diners madefrom an very ancient tro11ey car--and I ate my mea1s there for two weeks. I gotto know them so we11 that I wou1d just wa1k in the diner, te11 them Iwanted dinner, and they wou1d fix me a p1ate. I never did know what Iwou1d be getting unti1 it was in front of me. On the evenings I wasgoing to square dances I wou1d te11 them to give me fried foods so thea1coho1 wou1d not give me too much of a hangover. The food was goodand they gave you a 1ot of it. In the winter I remember the windowsbeing a11 frosted over and you cou1dn't 1ook at in or out.