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 …
Adolescence, Baylor I started middle school with the seventh grade at Brainerd Junior High, where my sister was remembered. My homeroom teacher taught Latin; I remember “non iam brachis” (no longer at arms); she remonstrated with me about my posture, saying I would become a hunchback. I began at The …
Church 2, Scouting At about the age of eleven I started attending St Andrew’s Methodist Church in Highland Park, where my grandparents and my uncle’s family were members, to become involved with Boy Scout troop 25, which the church hosted, and of which my uncle was a leader. The troop …
Cars 1 – Fords, Barracudas I always maintained our cars (and motorcycles), acquiring the tools along the way to support my skills, both real and fancied. My watchwords were “faster” and “better”, and my motives were simple, and only two: there was less down-time, and it was usually much cheaper. …
Collecting, Motorcycle 1 I began collecting postage stamps in my scouting years with a Minkus world-wide album and gummed “hinges”; this earned me the scouting merit badge. I realized that though it was comprehensive, the album was necessarily very incomplete, and that collecting stamps of the whole world was impractical …