(Not in any chronological order)
We lived in the house on Rt. 177, from 1941 – 1949 (4226 Main Street)
Dad dug out the basement to make it larger and tore down the chimney.
He also dug the well deeper. There was no indoor bathroom.
Mom cooked on a white gas stove and later, on a propane stove.
Getting a pony form Mark Nichol that we named Bootsie.
Catching my first fish in Baumann's pond.
Square dances at the K of P Lodge and movies in the parking lot.
Roll of Honor sign.
Christmas party at the Hitching Post (1950). We must have come back from Indiana for this.
Mowing grass at the Hitching Post (1949) and Red Huber paying me a silver dollar.
Learning to ride a bike.
Fixing flats at Luther McVicker's garage.
Playing with Jack Hansel, Kirky Mee, Jack Frost, Imogene Schultz, Earl Crane, Pete, Donna, and Melva Jewell, Janet Baumann.
Sunday school at the Lutheran Church one Sunday and then at the Methodist Church the next.
Mr. Glarden's model “T” parked in our garage.
Dad's 1939 Buick.
Trips to the dump with Dad.
Hunting rabbits on Johnny Smith's farm and Granville Wills' farm. (That 20 gauge side-by-side sure packed a wallop to an 8 year old!)
DOKK picnic at Lane's Mill and the roadside park south of town.
Picnic at Decker's farm down by the creek.
Going into Bufler's clock repair shop and seeing and hearing all those clocks ticking and striking.
Going into the Hitching Post with Mom and Dad and getting a sandwich and a coke.
Coxie's garage and shop.
The Mee house and barn and their bulldogs.
The Tom Thumb wedding.
Playing on the stage and upstairs at the K of P Lodge, when the grownups weren't watching too closely.
Trips to Oxford for groceries, dentist appointments and haircuts.
Trips to Hamilton to shop with Mom.
VJ Day.
VE Day.
Riding the school bus to Collinsville.
The Davis sisters.
Kirk Mee and other men sitting and talking at McVicker's gas station, while I got my bike tire inner-tube patched.
Recollections of Bill Brooks
[Webmaster note: In January 2021, Phyliss (Brooks) Flick, younger sister of Bill Brooks, contributed Bill's memories of Darrtown, which she transcribed from Bill's handwritten notes.]
About a week after submitting the above memories, Bill Brooks emailed the following additional recollections.
Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan...this is what DOKK stands for. It is an advanced degree of the Knights of Pythias. They wear a black Fez. I don't know if it still exists. I was a member of the Knights of Pythias but never joined the DOKK.
More memories of Darrtown:
Marie Schmidt's first and second grade classes.
Mrs. Bradberry's fourth grade Sept.- late Oct. 1949
Going back to church at the Darrtown Methodist church after we had moved to hamilton from Indiana 1954-1958
One of the bus drivers died on the way back to Darrtown in the afternoon. I am not sure who it was or what year it was. I know it wasn't Johnny Smith.
Jack Hansel and I were good friends and always were getting into mischief together.
I noticed that the dates for the Vietnam War are 1954-1973 That should be changed to 1959-1975. If you go to the Vietnam War memorial in DC you will see that it starts with the first killed in 1959 and the last in 1975.
I served in the USMC from Sept 1958-Sept 1968.
I went to Vietnam in Aug 1962 with a helicopter squadron and left Vietnam in March of 1963. We were classified as advisers at the time. We supported the army of South Vietnam by inserting them for patrols and resupplied them in their outposts. We lost two choppers and seven men, while I was there.
In 1979, my mom and dad moved back to Darrtown and in 1990 I moved to a house on Somerville road just west of Rt 177.
I will submit more if something else comes to mind.
I also remember going to Fred's house a couple of times!!!
