Wednesday, February 24, 2010

The digital leaf design on right hand side  behind the building is from Scrapgirls.
TinyTown USA
My childhood home was a small cattle ranch in the Nebraska sandhills. Our closes neighbors were the residents of Eli a tiny town two miles through the hills on the original US Highway 20 a washboard gravel road or four miles around on paved US Highway 20. In Eli there were two general stores. One sold cattle feed and other needs for our animals. The other store was the grocery store, the post office, gas station, and telephone switch board. Along that same sandy street was the community hall used for dances, funerals, wedding receptions, and elections. At the end of that street was the parsonage. There was another street that ran at a right angle to the business street and another that ran parallel. The church was on the parallel street. Across the street from the stores was a large two story unkempt building that once housed my Uncle Frank’s hardware store and gas station. The back of that build and the second story was their home. When I was quite young there were four or five other homes along those three streets and down the quarter mile gravel road to the two-roomed school house. There was one more group of buildings about 1/8 mile north there was a train depot, remains of a lumber yard, and stockyards for shipping cattle out on the Union Pacific train.

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