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Saving A Drowning Brother
by Walter Thomas (Tom) Scates The featured Scates Family photo is from 1954: Faith & Harry in back, Tim & Tom in front. 1957: After we moved to 548 28 Road, Grand Junction, CO 81501, during the summers, while I was in high school, we swam in the Grand Valley Canal, which was about ½…
Vacation(s) With Dad and Mom
by Walter Thomas (Tom) Scates Featured photo is Tom, Erskine Sr. & Tim in 1953 The first words in the title to this story is an oxymoron, because we never took vacations. Well, almost never. I can recall two trips that for those of us living at home then seemed like a vacation. One was…
Hooghan (Hogan)
1966: featured photo is our auntie Grace Oldman in front of her hooghan at Red Mesa AZ, which is a log structure (picture an eight sided one room log cabin) with log roof (picture logs in a bowl shape and turned upside down on the octagon shaped “cabin”) and covered with the clay soil for…
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