Leo Deal

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Leo Deal was born at home on June 16, 1930, on the family farm outside of Parker, Indiana. He is now a retired professor living in East Lansing, Michigan, and enjoys many of the same pastimes he describes in his stories: travel, participating in music groups like barbershop quartets and church choir, watching and listening to college and professional sports. He originally wrote these memoirs for his grandchildren but is now pleased to share them with you.

AUTHOR’S WELCOME

One night during the 1960’s, I dreamed that I was speaking in a baseball stadium. I was speaking from the pitcher’s mound to a group of people in the stands. I can’t remember what the topic of my speech was; but at the end, I told the crowd this: “These things are a part of me. And now that I have told them to you, they are also a part of you.”

The following stories cover significant and insignificant things in my life. If you decide to read them, they will also be a part of you. They will give you a bit of family history. They tell you something about growing up during the 1930’s and 1940’s.

They cover things that—-in a small way—have become part of my family’s folklore. People do not see things from the same perspective. Some who read these stories will probably have different memories about the way things actually happened. From my grandparents, from my parents, through me, here are some stories for my children and grandchildren and the next generation. I hope the stories become part of my family and part of you.

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