Reclaimed Memories

e tried to see Beulah as often as possible after she got back to Eustis. We went over almost as soon as she returned to Florida and we saw her almost every month. Her son David, and Mable Crain from Akron, brought her over once during the year.

We visited back and forth with the Wrights and Clasons from our church in Winter Park. We made two trips to Eustis to see Elmer (Peck) Romine, whose first wife was my deceased sister, Opal. He passed away in January of '90 and was taken back and buried in Crown Hill beside Opal.

We went back to Beulah's on February 3rd and went onto Winter Park and to the Clasons after church. Kathy had Fran Rogers come for the noon meal so we could be together.

We were so amused at a story Fran told about a retarded man in the small town in Tennessee where she grew up. I have forgotten the name of the town, but for the sake of the story I will call it Reedy and the retarded man Joe. Joe was bragging to a group of men that he was going to marry Kate, who was known as the town prostitute. One of the men said, "Joe, you don't want to marry Kate. She has been with every man in Reedy." Joe replied, "Well, there ain't too many men in Reedy.'

There was a carry-in dinner on that Sunday evening at St. Andrews Church, which we enjoyed very much. It gave us a chance to visit with the people we knew who were still in the church after nineteen years.

Zylpha and Blossom had arrived at 6:p.m. January 25th. On March 5th the four of us went to Eustis and stayed overnight with Beulah.

Marion drove us over to see Kelsie Whitlatch in St. Petersburg, on Saturday, August 4. Kelsie is a long time friend. She and her husband were members of our home church. While we were at the college she ran the student snack bar. We stayed overnight with her and Marion came back in time to take us to Emmanuel Church in Bradenton for the Sunday morning service. We gathered with old friends after the service and the Aldrichs invited us to the picnic they were having at the site of a retirement house they were building on Braden River, near Bradenton. Dot was as witty as ever and it was a fun afternoon.

The Brady Trilogy  I  Reclaimed Memories - (1991)  I  Pop Troy's Anthology - ( 1992)  I  Kinfolk - (1994)