Posted by rrlund on January 21, 2023 at 06:38:18 from (173.225.203.213):
In Reply to: Townies posted by Vito on January 20, 2023 at 14:32:15:
Same house. What's starting to feel like a responsibility is that I've known so many different generations both before and after me. I've come to realize that there are very few of us left who've always been here. I just never had an inkling of a dream that the only place a lot of this history would exist would be in my mind. I dawned on me three years ago when a neighbor woman who's been here all along too, called me and asked if I remembered the name of the guy who murdered a school teacher in a swamp between her house and mine back about 1930. Another lifelong local is the only person I know who's Dad told her the same story that my Dad told me about Jack Benny stopping at a house here in town one day to visit a woman he knew in Vaudeville.
My uncle's great grandson just bought the house and 20 acres that borders me on the north. My aunt and uncle have both passed away and so have my cousin and her husband. I can remember going to the cousin's wedding plain as day. Who could have ever imagined that her grandson would be my neighbor some day?
When I was a kid, there was three generations living in that house. Fred was from the WW 1 generation. His daughter and son in law along with their three kids lived there with him. All three kids were a few years younger than me. I read in the paper recently that the youngest of them just passed away. Who else would know that much history and that many generations in just one house in a neighborhood?
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