by Gerry Furgason | Nov 16, 2023 | EARLY YEARS
During the Louisville, Kentucky Christmas season, Stewarts Department Store was open until 9:00 p.m. on Monday evenings so while attending Presentation Academy, I worked there and would take the late bus home from town out to our home in the Camp Taylor neighborhood....
by Gerry Furgason | Nov 15, 2023 | EARLY YEARS
I stood there looking at the photograph my student held in his hand. He explained that he was one of the soldiers who helped liberate one of the Nazi concentration camps during World War II. It was his horrible reminder of the cruelty suffered by so many men,...
by Gerry Furgason | Nov 15, 2023 | EARLY YEARS
My mother never fried or served green tomatoes in the McKay Street dining room when I grew up there. All tomatoes that entered the kitchen were red, ripe, and sliced for meals or peeled and canned in the basement then stored on cellar shelves for winter...
by Gerry Furgason | Nov 15, 2023 | EARLY YEARS
Skating in the basement of the McKay Street home was mostly a rainy day or a winter exercise. The furnace was located beside the steps toward the front down there with the steps descending from the center of the house. Skating around the basement took careful counting...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 20, 2023 | EARLY YEARS
Before the advent of the modern hot water heater, preparing for a bath began with boiling a teakettle full of water on our McKay Street cook stove. After the water was poured into the white bathtub in the small bathroom next to the kitchen, cold...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 19, 2023 | EARLY YEARS
Transportation in my early childhood years meant that you rode in a family car or truck, rode in a cab or on a bicycle, or rode in a Streetcar. Streetcar rides were few and I have only retained memories of two occasions from those days. One was of an...
