We have a chance for more snow flurries today, but on Sunday (2 short days away), 60 degrees is predicted. Ain’t God good to Indiana? 🙂
Probably because the weather is crazy, people have nothing to do but go through old newspapers. Scrolling through Facebook yesterday, I noticed local paper, The Tribune, shared an image of the front page of their publication from exactly 50 years ago.
Moments later, I get a text asking if I saw my Dad’s name included within the image of the paper’s front page.
I’d call your attention to the article on the top left but know you probably can’t read it. After squinting for about 30 minutes, I figured out it was a report of an accident where a car turned in front of a truck, driven by my Dad, Dallas McKain. Dad’s passenger, my Pap-pa, then 65 years-old, was injured and taken to the hospital.
Either it was no big deal or Dad and Pap-pa kept it a secret because even Mom doesn’t remember this happening. Knowing Pap-pa, it was the latter.
Then today, Curt Kovener (friend and editor of the Crothersville Times) sent me a text that said: “June 1981. God, we were young once.” This message was accompanied by the following image of yet another newspaper clipping…
Can you even imagine what it will be like 40-50 years from now when everything is so much easier to access?
