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24 Home 3, Pets

Home 3 In those days on Sundays by request I drove a young woman to and from the Belleville church, where we both attended; she lived nearby, in North Kingstown’s Hamilton community on Bissell Cove of Narragansett Bay, in a big old former apartment house on Worsley Avenue with her …

25 Cars 4 – Lebaron, Olds

Cars 4 – Lebaron, Olds I bought a 1981 Chrysler “Lebaron”, blue-grey 4 door sedan with 318cc V8 engine and automatic transmission.  It was a police car, only one year old with many fairly gentle miles; I went to great lengths to “de-police” it.  I removed the identifying town stickers, …

26 Church 5 – QBC, etc.

Church 5 – QBC, etc. Following my years at HS-11, Ginny and I attended a Baptist church in the village of Wickford; there I helped paint the church building’s below-roof woodwork, and there reconnected with a Wasp friend who was a member there with his new wife, the pastor’s daughter.  …

27 Parenthood, Paper Routes

Parenthood, Paper Routes After we were married, our five children were born in the following succession; the Lord led us to names for all but Ben: Joseph Nathanael (note the New Testament spelling); he was born August 13, 1970 at Kent County Memorial Hospital in Warwick RI, while I worked …

28 CTI-Morgan

Leesona, CTI-Morgan I applied at the Leesona company in 1970 and was hired as a machine operator in the Bore-matic department to work in a group numbering about six.  Situated near TF Green airport in Warwick RI on Strawberry Field Road, with an immense parking lot, they made textile-weaving machines …

29 Vacations

Vacations We took few trips due to kids, paper routes, dogs, and my job; but I remember some: The trip to see Ginny’s parents, in Glen Burnie MD was 400 miles and took about 8 hours; they lived at 110 Ridgely Road, off Old Quarterfield Road, in a split-level ranch …