Darlene Hill

Seeing Life in the 1940's & 50's through the eyes of a Nebraska Child Darlene Hill

This book was written by a great-grandma who wants to leave to her children the memories she has of her childhood. The book tells about the house she was born in, the church she attended, and the school she went to. It also tells about how the house was heated, how the laundry was done, growing a garden so there would be food through the winter, and living through the blizzard of 1948 and '49. She also tells about how her great-grandpa settled in Greeley County and how he built his farm up from scratch and also helped build and then teach the first country school for many miles around. You get to see what a Charlie Brown Christmas was like back then. She tells about sewing on her mom's sewing machine and getting her finger sewed. Also she tells about how kids kept busy back then. How she rode the steam engine train to Fullerton and spent a week in the big city of Grand Island. The story ends for now at her graduation from high school in 1959.