To complete the last chapter in Bring Me Back Home I came to Iowa in April of 2017 to document how things had changed since I grew up in Wayne County.
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This week's blog is a photo of North Salem School in Wayne County Iowa where Dad attended grade school. Dad is on the front row, fifth one from the right. The time would have been about 1930.
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Today's blog from my Mom and Dad's collection of memories is a Certification for Temporary Non-Agricultural Employment approved by the Local Board No. 1 Wayne County during WWII for my Grandpa Homer Michael.
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I am fortunate that my Mom and Dad left me with memories of their lives from the early 1940s, through WWII and to about 1948. I hope you find it interesting. I knew very little of these details while they were alive.
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This is the final installment (10 of 10) of my Dad's autobiography about growing up in Wayne County Iowa.
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This week's blog is installment 9 of 10 of my Dad's autobiography about growing up in Wayne County Iowa. Next week will conclude Dad's autobiography so it will be followed with additional memorabilia from Mom and Dad's era until the release of my book Bring Me Back Home coming soon.
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This week's blog is installment 8 of 10 of my Dad's autobiography about growing up in Wayne County Iowa. Enjoy
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This weeks blog is installment 7 of 10 of my Dad's autobiography about growing up in Wayne County Iowa. Enjoy
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This week's blog is installment 6 of 10 of my Dad's Autobiography about growing up in Wayne County Iowa.
Read MoreThis week's blog is installment 5 of 10 of my Dad's autobiography about growing up in Wayne County Iowa. Enjoy
Read MoreThis week's blog is installment 4 of 10 of my Dad's autobiography about growing up in Wayne County Iowa. Enjoy.
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This is installment 3 of my Dad's autobiography about his life growing up in Wayne County, Iowa. This page is referring to the town of Corydon, Iowa.
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This is installment 2 of my Dad's autobiography about his life growing up in Wayne County, Iowa. As before, I've transcribed Dad's original hand-written manuscript with minimal corrections. I hope you continue to find it interesting as well as insightful.
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Over the course of the next few months, I will be posting a page each week from my Dad's autobiography. There will be two parts to each posting. One part will be the typed transcript with minimal corrections to the included JPEG of the original hand-written manuscript by Dad. Some of the handwriting is difficult to read which is why there is the typed transcript version to accompany it. Dad died on February 6th, 2015. I hope you find it interesting as well as insightful as to what his life was like.
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