In 1977, I made binders for my grandparents, some of their siblings, and my great grandparents, and their siblings with story-sheets they could fill out to record their favorite stories, our family’s history.

I’m glad that at age thirteen was thought of this family project as the stories were written in their own hand writing and in their own words.

In 1990, I had them add more stories. Here are a few from my maternal grandparents, Leroy & Donna nee Clary Barmes.