Everyone has a home town. I grew up in Clear Lake, SD which has a lake that ironically it is not very clear. Here are some of the random memories from my home town: Mangel’s Hardware had a toy section. The lights were single bulbs on pull strings and the owners would “light the way” by […]
In the northwest part of my hometown was Newman’s Field, the site of neighborhood baseball games. The chicken-wire backstop formed the home plate area while the back of a gray barn followed the third base line and an alley followed the path along first base. The left field was defined by a town street, center […]
We had this awesome playing field between the house and the church. We played football, baseball, and tons of other games and it was huge. We had an upstairs bedroom with tons of room to play. There was a staircase that we used to slide down on pillows and it was huge. We had the […]