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Category Archives: Happily Ever After – Back to the Beginning
Happily Ever After – Chapter 4 – It Was the Times
I thought a lot about what Dad told me, how Mr. Kimball was so kind to help me get the woodshed clinic started, and I thought about how Mr. Bailey helped too, giving me the two quarters to buy a … Continue reading
Posted in Happily Ever After, Happily Ever After - Back to the Beginning, My Blog, My Book, My Books, My Entries
Tagged 1904, 1945, Chrissy's Clinic, German Books, Grandpa Heim, hard times, Jewish, painful memories, sad times, smiles and chocolate chip cookies, St. Louis World's Fair 1904, Start-up help, The Times, Trumpeter, world known Grandpa
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Happily Ever After – Chapter 1 – 1945
In 1945, the population of Lovell, Maine was around 650. In this small lumber town, the people were busy, preoccupied with hard work to pick up their livelihood after WWII ended. The kids went to school, had down-home fun and outdoor adventures all … Continue reading
Happily Ever After – Chapter 3 – The Woodshed Clinic
George Bailey lived on Church Street. We lived there too next to the red brick Congregational Church and he lived across from it. Marlene remembered him because he rang our front doorbell every morning to wake Dad up. They both worked … Continue reading
Posted in Happily Ever After, Happily Ever After - Back to the Beginning, My Blog, My Book, My Books, My Entries
Tagged general store, kind Mr. Kimball, penny candy, Sears Roebuck catalog, secret, sick and hurt animals, strange man Mr. Bailey, three battery flashlight, two quarters, woodshed clinic
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Happily Ever After – Chapter 2 – Bambi at the Mayfair Theatre
The block-buster Disney movie Bambi was playing at the Mayfair Theatre in Bridgton, Maine about fifteen miles from Lovell. Its premier came out in 1942, and it took three years to get to the Mayfair. Dad promised we could see … Continue reading
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Tagged Bambi movie, bandages, Bridgton, dark, Doc Randall, go and stop game, Love is a Song, Lucy and Lance, Maine, Mayfair Theatre, memories, path to follow, reserved seats, scary forest, the fall, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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