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Jeannie Peck Stories

Please Don’t Mess With My Bible

…. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.I Cor . . .

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Serendipity

Recently I was asked how the musicians’ strike of the 1940s impacted the way I listened to music t . . .

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Snapshot of a Little Girl Laughing

The request, as I understood it, was to locate a photo or snapshot of something significant in my li . . .

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The “Greatest Generation”… One Old Girl’s Opinion

PrologueI expect that there may be some disagreement with some of these observations. But let me sta . . .

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A Warm Memory of Cold Winter Nights

ca - mid-1930sAlthough Marilyn, Buddy and Jeannie were only summertime “country kids”, there wer . . .

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Charlie DeMar Stories - Part 1

(ca 1937)When you come right down to it, sometimes a most ordinary man can be at the same time, a mo . . .

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Do You Want To Know What Makes Me Laugh?

“Do you want to know what makes me laugh?” Jeanne Peck asked, wielding a sheet of paper. “This . . .

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About A Delightful Book

I had intended at the outset to write a one-paragraph book review. But upon further consideration, d . . .

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Charlie and whitey, the Rooster

Circa 1939Charlie arrived home on a lovely late Summer Friday afternoon. There was a gentle breeze a . . .

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Communicating In The 1940s

She awoke, startled, to an unfamiliar sound. The clock on the nightstand read 3:20. There was that s . . .

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