Stories from Elsie Johnson

What a difference in medicine and procedures – treatments since I graduated from nursing school in 1944. We wore our w...

May Day in Iowa was important and fun. Several days before May First, my sisters and I would be busy making little baske...

Recently, “60 Minutes” did a program on the discovery that male and female cells react to drugs and drug dosages dif...

Cold Iowa winters made these necessary clothing for me. It was awful for a 4th-5th grade girl to go to school with lumpy...

“I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill On Blueberry Hill when I found you.” I met Bill the summer of ’39. His fam...

Many families would take a Sunday afternoon drive for vacation. We had a 1930’s Willy’s Knight Sedan. While on these...

Home Remedies Do you remember when door-to-door salesmen were welcomed into your home? The Fuller Brush Man – Watkins...

Our father was the barber when we were young. We (the three of us) looked alike with the “Buster Brown” bangs and sh...

It was our first Christmas together. We had been married four months and were so “in love”. We decided to send out C...