We Remember When....

By: Jan Dunning-Fraher

Thanksgiving - 1981/82. Mom, Dad, all us kids, Grandpa Rex & Grandma MaryAnn are in from Iowa, Uncle Bill & Susan are in from Maryland. Dinner is almost ready. Grandpa & Grandma HAVE to have their afternoon 'cocktails'. Grandpa & Jim Beam and Grandma and her wine. By the time its all ready to eat, G & G had consumed enough alcohol to supply the family. Dinner was great! Grandkids go outside to play. Needless to say, we adults were too stuffed to move from the table! Then Grandma starts. OH NO! We're in for trouble. She's giggling!!!! Then proceeds to tell us about her sex life when she was a 'young' girl! We didnt dare ask 'how' young!!! We were afraid she'd tell us! She informed us all the times they'd have to sneak to the barn, the attic, the basement, cars, parks, and just about anyplace else you can imagine. Just what we wanted to hear Thanksgiving Day. I will admit tho, it did make for a delightful rememberance! I was amazed that a woman in her 70's could remember her 'first' time including the names of the young men. Go Grandma!!!

By: Dave Ralston

My friend and I went to the Family History Center -- she is a good genealogist and has done it for years. We both had been putting names into the computer with not much success. I sort of chuckled to myself and told her to enter THEOPHILOUS DUNNING. Of course it went crazy like the jackpot on a slot machine! Her eyes really lit up. Copy it, copy it, she said!!