Good Ole Days

1958--I remember this well. Francis Crider was a really nice man. I remember when I would help or thought I was helping make a huge lunch for the men who would help out at my Grandpa and Grandma Van Tomme's farm when Grandpa Camiel was sick. It was fried chicken, potatoes, gravy, bread/butter, veggies, and of course homemade pies for dessert. Wow, I miss those good ole days. This is the old Madison neighborhood north of town. Neighbors helping neighbors still goes on across the nation in farm communities today. Francis and his mother, I remember, lived where Bob Ryan lives now. As a little girl, I loved him! He and one of my mom's friends from NY "kept company" for a while when she visited. 
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