Series Part 18 – Extracts from Dickeyville Days Memoirs
By Christine Meeks Wedeking
Memories from Christine Meeks Wedeking
- Wayne [Markert] breaking his leg when he fell into quicksand-like material at the building site next to the old Parish Hall – traction set up in Markert’s living room.
- Sunday school dances and plays in old Parish Hall.
- Calvin Bernard kicking my mother in church
- Older girls congregating on the Hastings’s steps.
- Swimming at Granite Quarry – piling in the trunk of Gary Wessel’s car to get in for free.
- Exploring with Pen Smith in the woods behind his house.
- Being at Elinor’s begging her to play her original songs (and I’ll expect to hear “Pride” at the reunion)
- Flatbed boat of Vandy Stissel’s in stream.
- Playing on swing set at Stissel’s trying to swing high enough to jump over a high hedge and impaling myself on dog house or post and going to St. Agnes ER
- Also went to St. Agnes ER when I split my knee open in Ricky Spranklin’s driveway, and his sister (a nurse) carried me home.
- Penny candy at Abe’s store.
- Julie [twin sister] turning “Catholic” for a day to cut school and stay home with Joy [Markert] for the Catholic holiday.
- Playing football behind Stissel’s with Barky Roemer directing the plays
- Playing baseball on Methodist Church property
- Inviting the Moritz twins to sit in the freshly painted seats on the streetcar – subsequent call from Agnes [their mother]
- Putting Spry (a new yellow colored Crisco) in “old lady Rohrer’s” mailbox (the lady who lived in the Odd Fellows Hall) and being punished by not being allowed to buy a new bicycle that night
- Sneaking a smoke in a hillside stand at Jerry Moran’s (It was really a rolled up piece of notebook paper.)
- Tennis with Tina Berblinger at Crimea.
- Nancy Hunley dancing her way to New York
- Peter and Don Miller. I think Peter moved to Hilton Head. I think he was psychology PhD. Don went back to New Jersey.
- The Slades, the last I heard, Billy was teaching at Western Maryland College [now McDaniel]
- Dot and Hayes Mowers – plays. [Dot wrote] The Town Crier newspaper [with village news]
- K 2 and Althea Loveless, one died a few years ago.
By Christine Meeks Wedeking
Editor’s note: Please check back each Sunday to the Dickeyville Village blog to read extracts from the Dickeyville Days memoirs – a compilation of memories from previous Dickeyville denizens reflecting on a childhood spent growing up in the village during the 1940s, 50s, & 60s. We hope you enjoy their stroll down memory lane.