Yesterday Ray and I enjoyed a snowy-then-rainy drive from Louisville through eastern Kentucky and through Cumberland Gap National Historical Park into Tennessee and then North Carolina. I was reading aloud to Ray while he braved the wet roads. Part of…
Mary Evelyn and her children pulled into our driveway on Saturday morning. Ray climbed into the front passenger seat while I wedged in between two carseats in the back of her family’s minivan. It was time for another of our…
Our friend Larry was completely surprised at his birthday party last Saturday. The party theme was tractors, an appropriate theme for this former Iowa farm boy who decades later lives on a residential street in Michigan with four small tractors…
Ida Eisenhower created a beautiful home for her family. She was a good seamstress. We have already seen the pillow on which she embroidered her sons’ names. She painted this picture which hangs in the hall. It reads, “Call Again.”…
The small back parlor was the heart of David and Ida Eisenhower’s home. On one wall was Ida’s piano. Before she married, Ida inherited $1000 dollars. She spent $600 of her inheritance for a custom-built piano. Before dropping out of college…
