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From the Morgue
Sharon Sanders

Items from my 'Boys Will Be Boys' file

Posted Tuesday, July 21, 2015, at 12:00 AM

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  • My dad, too, talked about filching watermelons from slow-moving trucks headed up Tollgate Hill.

    Of course, it was always his buddies who did it, not him.

    http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/tollgate-hill-watermelon-stealin/

    -- Posted by ksteinhoff on Wed, Jul 22, 2015, at 10:20 PM
  • I think your dad and my uncle may have been among those hiding in the weeds. LOL

    -- Posted by Sharon Sanders on Thu, Jul 23, 2015, at 6:51 AM
  • I so enjoy these "snapshots" of bygone days. Love the outrageous journalism style of Daily Republican and old Missourians. So "down home" chatty. I run across a lot these snippets in my newspaper ancestry research. I 'clip' them and keep them in a digital folder.

    -- Posted by Astowick on Sat, Jul 25, 2015, at 12:29 AM