This posting is
the very start (genesis) of what I have in mind
for the whole of what is to follow. I welcome and indeed solicit any and all comment, suggestion, addition and(or) correction that
you may see to some particular shared time in our past. Thank You!
**
THE CHANDLER JOURNEY~
The Way I Remember,
Perceive/Interpret.
Ted Joe Chandler (1931 ~ 20xx)
Ted Joe Chandler (1931 ~ 20xx)
PROLOGUE
(Temp. Entry Format)
Briefly, this will be a chronicle
of the emergence, growth, travels, of the five children of Joseph O. Chandler
and Edna L. (Walker) Chandler - - as I, the first of the five children to
arrive on the scene, remembered and interpreted all of it.
Before detailing these
times and experiences it is important, in my view, to set up a kind of time
line that will define when & where the significant family moves and events
took place; call them “Book 1, Book 2,……, etcetera” seems to make some kind of
sense for now. These “Books” will
begin with the time/date period when I first started remembering, (at three or four
years, maybe?).
In
advance, I am thanking you all for your help, input, suggestions, corrections –
from Siblings, Cousins, Aunts, Uncles, Sons, Daughters, Nephews, Nieces and - -
- - -(?)
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BK
ONE (1931-1937)
Longmont,
Colorado
I was born (according
to the records and what Mom and Dad told me; I don’t remember the event……) on
September 4th, 1931 in Longmont, Colorado, US of A.
My first
memories started sometime between age three-and-a-half to five years. My
brother, Donald Ortman, was (records, again….., same as above) born on
September 14th, 1932. I seem to have some vague memories
(neuro/chemical stirrings in the cranial
grey-matter?) about the birth of my sister Ruby Lou, November 5th,
1934.
When I was
between age four and five, Grandpa Chandler went for a walk with me down a dirt
road, across a bridge over a lively creek and to an airport. I had wanted to see up close where we could
watch those awesome bi-planes go coughing and sputtering down a bumpy runway
and miraculously get into the air safely; very vivid to me even now, with my
Grandpa holding my hand. On the way back home we went “skinny-dipping” in the
creek; that was in the summer of 1935 (or was it spring of 1936?).
During that
same 1936 spring and summer, my Uncle John let me watch him in his milk house
while cranking on the (hand-operated) cream separator, bottling up the milk,
cleaning up the equipment and then letting me go with him on one of his daily
milk deliveries to his customers around some neighborhoods of Longmont (or was
it Boulder ?).
>>>>>More
1936; My Dad and the school that he was teacher/principal of and the
fire-escape tubes….. fun, fun!
>>>>>More
1936; Climbing a steep, rocky hill at
Grandma and Grandpa Chandlers mountain place in Boulder, Colorado.
>>>>>More
1936; Longmont city dump….. (fun, dirty and in trouble again!)
>>>>>More
1936; Learning how to play with my little four-year-old brother, Donny, without
nearly lynching him in a game of “spin your little brother with his head stuck
through the straps of a pair of bib-overalls” which Mom had hooked on the
clothes line for drying (not for the
purpose lynching someone! . . .
more trouble and more learning).
>>>>>More
1936; Cutting down neighbor’s new seedling cherry tree and the trouble afterward…….
>>>>>More
1936; The Longmont sandy beached public swimming lake with slides!
>>>>>More
1936; Many, many more memories during that spring and summer.
>>>>>More
1937; Getting ready for the move to South Dakota……..
>>>>>More
1937; The move to South Dakota, the 1931 four-door Chevy towing a trailer with
all our worldly possessions, the flat tire, Dad’s foot injured by the dropping
of the heavy trailer hitch on it, the blizzard …….. and much more!
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BK
TWO (1937 -1939)
I~
1937–1938
Oak
Creek, South Dakota
Oak
Creek Sioux Indian reservation and Boarding School
(Writings here, TBD)
II~
1938--1939
Little
Eagle, South Dakota
Pine
Ridge Sioux Indian Reservation and Boarding School
(Writings here, TBD)
