Grandpa & Grandma Bond Stories
Story Collection 1
Published October 14, 2026
Synopsis: Hubert Bond arrested in Leavenworth, Kansas. Hubert gets his first driver's license. Hubert arrested in Kansas City while looking for work in 1941. Saw mill stories. Atchison, Kansas Massacre. More sawmill stories. Quartersawing Sycamore. Grandpa quits a good job for another with less pay.
Tape 1
Transcript 1
Story Collection 2
Published October 14, 2026
Synopsis: The sawmill on The Twenty [Family term for the twenty-acre plot in the country Grandma & Grandpa owned outside Gentry, Arkansas where they had a tiny shack charitably called a cabin.] How Grandpa almost set up a sawmill in Nortonville, Kansas, but didn't. Wild kittens in a hollow tree. Masonic & Eastern Star in Gentry, Arkansas. Move to Carrolton, Missouri. Houses Grandpa built in Brunswick, Missouri. Stories about our cat D.C. Some stories about our family when we lived in in Kansas City, Kansas for a year or so, and then moved back to St. Louis. A little bit of geography around Peetz, Colorado. Kansas is only mostly flat.
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Transcript 2
Story Collection 3
Published October 14, 2026
Synopsis: Grandpa gets a new combine. Grandpa and threshing stories. Grandpa drops a threshing machine in a river. "Always bore with a big auger." Meadowlark the cat. Various houses. Mexican neighbors. Grandpa registered as a Republican, but voted for Truman and FDR. USA scared to death little old Iran. [How timely in 2026] Huge power outage in St. Louis.
Tape 3
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