Friday January 6, 2012

 

A Drive to Maytown

Where I Have Wonderful Childhood Memories

Tuesday, January 3

 

 

The purpose of this drive was to go for my bone density test – which is where I was heading the day of the accident.

 

 

We drove through a snow flurry several times on the way to the health campus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The health campus is located in Mount Joy, and since we went from there to the TFC office near Marietta (where I had some reports to drop off), we drove through Maytown where my grandparents lived and where my mother grew up.

 

 

This brick building was a general store when I was a child. One of my childhood memories is walking here with my mother’s youngest sister, Joyce, who is just a few years older than I.

My favorite memory of this place is the time I tasted my first “store boughten” chocolate milk. We lived on a dairy farm, so the only chocolate milk I drank was made with milk from our cows.

 

 

This is the home place where my mother and her seven siblings grew up.

 

 

The lighting was better on this side of the buildings.

 

 

This photo is from the 30s or 40s. A note on the picture says the car is a 1938 Ford.

 

 

 

A picture of my mother – probably as a teenager or in her early twenties.

 

 

My grandpa (Victor) and grandma (Elizabeth) Hawthorne. This is how I remember them. I expect they were in their sixties, probably near my current age. The baby is one of my cousins.

 

 

After retiring from the farm, they built this house on a plot from the farm.

 

 

It is difficult to find it these days, because there are similar houses on both sides. I recognize it by the driveway which has a slight decline.

 

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Sweet Memories

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