Recorded in Alpena, Michigan
This snapshot was collected in conjunction with the Museum on Main Street program at the Smithsonian Institution. It is part of the "Be Here: Main Street" collection, intended to capture Americans' stories about their neighborhoods, waterways, towns, traditions, and personal experiences.
How did your family come to live in your hometown?
"We moved up to northeast Michigan when I was about five years old from St. Louis, Missouri. My dad was in radio, and he was looking to get a job where he could have more air time. So, we loaded up the station wagon with five children. I think the ages were 15 down to 3, and we drove 13 hours up to a very remote, snow covered northeast Michigan, actually it was in Hawks. We lived there for a little while until we moved into the big city of Rogers City. We lived there for about four years on First Street right a block away from Lake Huron, which was an experience for all of us. It was a beautiful little community but very remote, very far away from the big city of St. Louis. Then we moved over to Travers City for a year, lived there, and then back over here to Alpena in northeast Michigan, and we've been here ever since. And that's how I got to Alpena, Michigan."
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