Lu's Place

The year my grandmother Lulu E. Hayes celebrated her eighteenth birthday as well as her wedding day to my grandfather, George Dwight Baniste...

 I'm almost seventy-nine years old and had thought that I had written down all of my memories of being raised on the farm in the forties...

 I have had seventy-eight Christmas mornings and as many Christmas Eves. My mother didn't teach us about Santa Claus. When I asked her w...

 When I was a little girl we lived on the farm that had belonged to my great grandfather. The house was a two story home with three rooms up...

 Since this is Christmas Eve of course, my mind takes me back to when I was a child in Iowa. Christmas at our house was pleasant. Yes, pleas...

 I was born and raised outside of a small town that my great grandparents helped settle many many years ago. I lived on the farm that my gre...

 I only had thirty-six years to get to know my dad. He had this fun relationship with life that would make me shake my head and sometimes ch...