Family Memories and Stories

Sadie CRABTREE AYOTTE ARIEL

Extracts from Sadie's Memoirs:

Part 1 and Part 2: Life on the Farm

Part 3: Separated From the Family  

Part 4: Life With the Thomas Family

Part 5: Brother Lindholm, Uncle Jesse, and Grammie Crabtree

Part 6: Marriage, Motherhood, and Losing Dickie

And a postscript to Sadie's story: Sadie's Pleasant Hill Farm Found!

Amalio MALLOZZI and Mary MALLOZZI

From an interview in April 1999

Mary and Amalio Talk About Life in an Italian Town in the 1920s

Mary and Amalio: The Trip to America from Italy

Amalio: Miss Brown and the Cherry Brandy

Clair Harris ZARGES 

Another Little Ballerina

Cars, Then and Now

Dancing Lessons

A Dangerous Childhood

Dressing Up

Elementary School, San Francisco in the 1950s

The Family History Book Says I Should Have Done This First (a list of things about me, Clair Z.)

Family Reunion at Little Sebago Lake, 1959

The House on High Street; Living in a 1770 antique colonial home in small town New Hampshire

Kids at Play; Three Generations

The Love of a Dog

My Daddy Was a Chevy Man

Party Kids

Road Trip, Old School Style

The Tenderfeet Camp with the Real Cowboys

A Train Trip with My Mother; Crossing the country by train in the 1940s

Rebecca Joy ZARGES

Rebecca's Hurricane Story, 1991