A Special Guest and The SiIver Jubilee

This past week it was my privilege to receive an email from a "reader" who said that she followed my blog and that she especially liked the stories about Wallace. I am always thrilled when someone takes the time to write and tell them that they read my drivel. I look at my reader stats , and indeed it shows that some people do read this blog, but of course, I have no idea who they are. It used to be a very small circle, and I pretty much knew who was reading, so when I have a new reader, I am thrilled.

She had a specific question for me about my growing up in Wallace, She asked if I was living in Wallace during the Silver Jubilee Celebration in 1958. Now, of course, I was not born until 1978, but I seem to have some genetic memory of such a celebration in my home town.(:) I emailed her back and related to her my memories about that marvelous time in the streets of  Wallace. I especially passed on how all of the adult men had to grow facial hair, and how the Wallace swimming pool was stocked with trout, and the kids under a certain age were allowed to catch one. It was great fun for  a little boy in Wallace. I still remember the mustache that my dad grew. I also told her how if the men did not grow a mustache, they were placed in a make shift jail, and the local kids would stand in front of the pen and shoot the "prisoners" with water pistols.

I did not expect to hear anymore from my new reader, although my interest was piqued by her inquiry. I received another email from this lady, who signed her name Donna.She told me in  this email that her dad had been mayor of Wallace during those years, and that they had moved from Wallace a couple of years after the Silver Jubilee. I told her that the only mayor that I remembered as a child was Arnold Keller, and she said that here father was the mayor right before Mr. Keller became mayor. To top it all, she included a picture of herself and her parents during the Silver Jubilee, and guess what, she was fishing in the Wallace pool for trout. Ladies and gentleman, I present to you Donna, the daughter of the former mayor of Wallace,Also in the picture is the Honorable Mayor ,David Clyde Murray , his wife Mabel, and daughter Donna. Thank you so much Donna for sharing this special photo and your memory of Wallace.