Archive for 10 February, 2008

Dadums Remembers

February 10, 2008 12:11 pm
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I am John B. McVeigh. I was born on February 10th, 1926. It was a very cold day to arrive on Earth. My father was a dentist. My mother was, as it was called, a housewife. My sister Mary is six years older than me, my other sister, Helen, is four years older. In 1930 my brother Bill arrived. That completed our family.We lived on East Capitol Street, just a mile from the nation’s Capitol. It was an interesting time to grow up. There were many young boys in the neighborhood and we never had trouble starting a baseball or football game. Outdoor sports were a big thing in the 30s. No tv to interrupt play. I remember when tv’s first appeared, the screen was 4 1/2 inches by 6 inches. Many people had a magnifying glass over the screen to enlarge the picture. It didn’t work.

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Family Memories

12:11 pm
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My mother, Nita, and my father, John, are only two days apart in age. Today is my father’s 82nd birthday. My mother was born not only on her own mother’s birthday, but Abraham Lincoln’s as well.

I think I started calling my father “Dadums” when I was twelve. I’ve asked him and mom to post some of their memories and they have graciously agreed. Today and tomorrow, I’ll be putting up Dadums’s posts, to be followed on February 12 by one from Mom. I’m working on her still to get another post up the next day.

Happy Birthday, Mom and Dadums!

Ruthie