"Memories of my childhood came flooding back in 1946, when I drove East with [Carrie's daughter] Hazel, her daughter, Carolyn, and Olive's daughter, Leila.  They took my picture as I sat on the porch of the house where I was born eighty-two years before.  They also took pictures of the barn Father had built not later than 1850.  They were astonished that the ridgepole was so straight and the barn looked so new.  It really was nearly one hundred years old.

"While on our trip, we stayed three days with [Carrie's sister-in-law] Lou, Henry's wife, and Bertha, their daughter.  Lou's other children and grandchildren came to visit us.  I still correspond with [Henry's and Lou's children] Ada and Ivan's wife, Mildred.  We also visited with my cousin, Ed McNany, and his sister, Carrie Karnes.  She still writes to me.  We also stayed all night with my dear friend, Ida Schell, who had been a pupil of mine.  We visited a friend, Rosetta Baker, who was born the same day I was.  We visited Fred Henry and his wife, who had gone to school with me.  And we saw Orrin and Sam Jordan, sons of the man who bought our farm.  The farm still belongs to the Jordan family.  Hazel took a picture of the Clarion River from the house.  We crossed the Allegheny River several times.