Jack Leddy's Kayak Poem

Jack spent a lot of time when young in Newport harbor and around Balboa Island, Southern California.  I just ran across a poem he wrote that was published in a newspaper (the clipping does not indicate which one).  I never knew my dad wrote any poetry at all.  I do not know when this poem was written or published. 

My Kayak

To paddle a kayak through numberless
yachts
At the rate of, oh a couple of knots
That's fun, don't you think?

Like floating a toothpick through corks
in your tub
We glide past, then slide past, the
new sailing club
To float with the tide.

Puddles dip down, then flash up so
high,
We frighten the sea-gulls upto
the sky --
My kayak and I.

Jack Leddy

Margaret Winter's Story Prairie Grove

My great aunt Margaret Winter tells this story of the lost town of Prairie Grove, Iowa here

Malcolm Winter and William Winter

Sept. 1889 James Winter, William Winter, Christine Wright, Mabel Wright

From the web pages of Malcolm Winter  "MABEL W. WRIGHT was born Apr 1, 1888 in California, and died Mar 2, 1964 in Los Angeles, California.She married HUGH VERNON WHITE.He was born Jan 24, 1889 in California, and died Jan 12, 1984 in Claremont, Los Angeles, California.
     
Children of MABEL WRIGHT and HUGH WHITE are:

	i.		MALCOLM5 WHITE, b. 1922, Sacramento, California.
	ii.		NINA JANE WHITE, b. Dec 5, 1919; d. Oct 4, 1986, Riverside, California

Benjamin Milton Robins

"Dr, Robins History"  by Eugene Robins  [I am keeping the grammatical but not the spelling mistakes: some of the proper name and place name spellings may be wrong]

Benjamin Milton Robins physician and surgeon, Residing in Osceola township on section fifteen (15) is a native of the state of New York.  Born in Jefferson County November 28, 1831 a son of James and Elysa Robins he was reared on the home farm, his father being engaged in agricultural pursuits, his primary education was obtained in the common school of his neighborhood.  And later he attended the academy at Mexico [a town] Oswego County N. Y. He studied medicine under Drs. Chafiss and Tenton of Pulaski Oswego County and subsequently took a full course of lectures at the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati graduating from the institution in the class of 1854.  He then began the practice of his chosen profession in Batavia Jefferson Co. Iowa where he remained till the spring of 1869 doing his residence there he built sef [himself?] an extensive practice.  The Dr. was united in marriage to Miss Marrina Cornwell of Warren Co, Ohio and to this union was born 8 children 5 boys and three girls E.V..A.L Q.R.S.R. and E. W. Ella Haven and Mrs Stella Williams Dr. French and Breda at home. [pretty hard to make out any of that]  Dr. Robins came to Clark Co. in 1869 and settled on his farm whitch is located two and 1/2 miles east of Osceola,  At the time his farm was an open farrie [prairie?] and although the ofessing [?] of his farm was a new experience to the doctor he succeeded in bringing it to a high state of cultivation and at the same time carried on his practice of medicine.  Sometime going a distance of 20 miles to see a patient.  Of late years he [paid] considerable attention to raising stock making a specialty of Short Horn cattle and now has a well stock[ed] farm of 50 head of cattle.  The Dr. is a member of the Odd Fellow order and order is whitch he take[s] much interest.

Jane Winter Leddy passed this on to me:  she writes on the photocopy I have "I think this was wirten by my cousin Eugene as a school project."  Jane's mother was Edna Robins.  

Helene Baldwin Winter

Helene Baldwin Winter 1899-1974.  Helene was married to my grandfather James Winter.  Their joint tombstone can be seen here.  The writing on the back of this picture is in the hand of Jane Winter Leddy daughter of James and Edna Winter.  There is a Helene Baldwin Winter Memorial Scholarship at Simpson College in Indianola Iowa.

Jane Winter Leddy's village.  I believe that came in cereal boxes.  She and her roommates collected them and stuck them to the ceiling of their dorm room.