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Looking Back at Me

I was looking back to see if you were looking back at me....

Baby Face

Mom and Dad in their early 20's. Dad singing chorus to "Baby Face".

Do You Know You Are My Sunshine

Mom and Dad - Audio of Mom "not really" trying to sing but some times you couldn't tell. Dad trying to remember the lyrics.  One thing is for certain - We could easily entertain ourselves!

Two Stories

O.A. Watts from Monticello, Arkansas and his mule. Here are two stories told by two Uncles - Ordie and Carl Watts. I had heard about my Grandfather's brother "Joe" shooting a Mule thinking it was a deer in his corn patch. They set the record straight for me.

Uncle Ordie Watts and Old Times

Uncle Ordie Watts and me talking earlier this year about "old times".

In the Mines

John Lawson Totten (top left) then Cora beside him. Dad, Howard, is the baby. Several years ago dad and I took a vacation together to visit the area in West Virginia where he grew up. We took a tour of a coal mine that had been turned into a museum. Dad told me about his father some times working two shifts. The person that gave us the tour had been a coal miner himself and told us how they would lay on their side in the wet and cold and use their picks to chip away at the vein of coal.  Dad knew his father worked hard but until that time he hadn't realized just how hard and dangerous his father's work had been.  Dad told me a lot of stories. He showed me the place where he first kissed a girl. We would stop off the highway when was came to a stream, would take off our shoes and socks and sit on a big rock soaking our feet and legs while I'd listen to his stories.  Everyone should be so lucky.

When I close my eyes

Dad singing "When I close my eyes".  Happy Father's Day Dad.

On the Wings of a Dove

Uncle Noah's Arch's a Mad House Now

Moving up to Glory Land