Table of Contents
1. Brother Billie Is Dead
Idyllic existence of Taylor Kingsbury family is shattered by a shocking tragedy in 1932.
2. Your Golden Years I'll Spend With You
Celebrate Golden Wedding Anniversary • After the party was over • Genesis of letter-writing hobby • Getting the old furniture bug • Not born to pull bolts of goods from shelves • Establishing an office • A golden year gallop.
3. Stubborn as a Mule
After the mules came Italy • Into a hurricane • From mules back to hobby horses.
4. What Do You Know About the Great Depression?
Corn hogging • Civilian conservation.
5. Her Body is Gone - Her Spirit Lives On
The killer piano.
6. American History in Pressed-Glass
Following a wanderlust toward luster.
7. Saddling the History Hobby Horse
Howard County family graveyards • We just 'pizened a baby' • Some grave remarks • Captain of the Forts of 1812 • Epitaphs • Obituaries of long ago • Race horses were his hobby • A little for the stomach's sake.
8. Clark's Chapel
Fortress of Religion • Rose bush memory.
9. Robert Taylor Kingsbury's Death
The death watch • The Masonic funeral service.
10. Farm Life In Boonslick Country
An apple a day • Tidbits • Changing times on a Boonslick farm • Apple orchards/harvesting • Labor problems • Hog killing • Ice in the home • Giving or taking milk • No money, no beer • Kingsbury apple dynasty ends.
11. Folklore Hobby Horse Rides
Buck and Cora • Cora's funeral • Ozark folklore/Branson.
12. Boonslick Country and the War
Jury foreman • No hung jury here • Fly boys • We aren't complacent • Babe's escape • Mr. Tert looks us over • Charles van Ravenswaay's farewell dinner • So much to do Ñ so little time • Reported missing in action.
13. Horace Kingsbury's Death
In the race to the railroad crossing, the train won.
14. Collector of Characters
For land's sake.
15. Bottling
Collecting Missouri bottles • Grandmother Schermer's Health Restorer • Pill boxes • Writer's conference.
16. Music, Music, Music
A good part of my life was music • She played her heart out • Music in the church • Examples of extensive musical involvement • Funeral songs.
17. Buttoning Up - Buttoning Down
What keeps your interest in the button hobby ? • Button mosaic pictures • Charm strings charm • Letters tell of button rides • Fairview button picture • Nobody knows who invented buttons • Buttoning down • Anyone collect bed pans?
18. Rivercene
Rivercene and hot house hogs • Rivercene's treasures auctioned.
19. From Fringe-topped Surrey To Planes In A Hurry
29. How I Became a Columnist
I fell for it • Journalism school guinea pig • Promiscuous roller skaters • A three generation household goods sale • Some nursing home friends • Life began at forty • A fine old hen • Santa passed me up.
21. From a Columnist's Scrapbook
Innocents abroad • A big day in Boonville • Hanging • Thespians arise to save hall • What to do with dem bones • The church's evolution • My leper mission • Scams: Dishonest shenanigans style changes • About early telephones • Ring central • A Long and two shorts • How styles do cycle • Are you plagued by maramus? • Looking at the old Seminary building • Where can you find a rhabodomancer? • Jack the ripper • Sitting on the front porch - watching all the folk go by • The tent show's in town • What should a bundle of joy cost? • Wedding presents expected • Did you ever see a horse in bed? • Magical Hackley mad stone. Nothing to fear but fear • Did you ever have a leap year date? • When did you have your first radio? • How long did the candle burn? • The dressed up toilet seat • Do you remember the ringing and tolling of the bells? • That man looks like President Truman.
22. What A Glorious And Colorful Sunset
Boonslick Historical Society • Happy 93rd birthday, Lilburn A. Kingsbury.
23. Sunset Afterglow
24. L'Envoi
Retrospect.
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