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.