Background, Boyhood I was born September 26, 1942 at Fort Sanders Hospital in Knoxville TN. My father had abandoned my mother and my 5 ½ year old sister to move in with his girlfriend, whom he married after he and my mother divorced, and with whom he had other children. …
Home 1, Crestway Drive Growing up in my grandparents’ home was idyllic. My chores were cleaning the cement front walk, which accumulated dirt and grass in the cracks between sections; washing the windows upstairs and down (we used Bon Ami); and scrubbing window screens (we used a hose, soap, brushes …
Church 1 – Centenary, other Looking back, it is clear that God has always been involved in my life, even when I wasn’t seeking Him. Both my maternal grandparents were saved (I remember that Grandfather had a Greek NT) and active in St Andrew’s Methodist Church (now defunct) in the …
Elementary and Early Schooling through grade 6 I attended kindergarten with my boy cousin at Brainerd Methodist Church; I remember being told to put our heads down for naps. For my six elementary years I attended Sunnyside school (it was about a mile away) usually walking past the Vine Street …
Brainerd Snapshot My world growing up, after my grandparent’s home and neighborhood, was Brainerd, Chattanooga. It was dominated by Brainerd Road, so I will help my reader understand what it was like: On the corner, at the traffic light, where buses stopped, was the Brainerd branch of the Miller Brothers’ …
Chattanooga and Surroundings On the other side of the ridge was Central High School, with its large library on the second floor; here my mother, who held a master’s degree from Lenoir (NC) College, was head librarian, and had her own windowed office (but was her own secretary), where she …