My beginning

I grew up in rural Belleville in St. Clair County Illinois in an area known as Dutch Hollow.   The kids were relatively safe and could go anywhere in the area and they knew if they misbehaved it would be dealt with then and there.   We had a neighborhood tavern...
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The Creek

When I was small I would go outside and play like any other kid so mom would tell me don’t go out of the yard.   Now you have to understand that I lived on a little hill and there was a field that my dad would put a garden in...
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