We drove an hour and a half from Lafayette, IN to Danville, IL, where I spent most of my childhood. The town has lost a lot of industry and many businesses have moved to the north of town. Parts of area look wonderful and others look very neglected. This was a mall where cars were not allowed when my father owned a business here.
This is the mother of my best friend. We took her to lunch and caught up on all the news. She has many interests and reads voraciously.
Ted and I have not found any place that has custard as good as this place. Lemon is my favorite. On a hot, humid Illinois night, the lines are very long here.
Wednesday we drove to Winamac, IN. It is the county seat of Pulaski County, where my Nichols great, great grandparents were married.
A wonderful Clerk of Records helped us find some genealogy information and then sent us to the city library where we searched; for another 3 hours.
Isn't this interesting architecture? This is on a corner of the town square.
Winamac has many homes like this and most are in good repair.
Here is another one.
Look at that black dirt and fields that look as though they go on forever. This is the soil of central Illinois and Indiana. I grew to see it as beautiful and I miss it. It grows almost anything.
Ted and I met in Lafayette, IN where Ted was finishing his PhD in Nematology at Purdue University and I was a Title I Coordinator for Lafayette School District. This is the site of our first date about 29 years ago. We had both gone through divorces and met through a group of singles with Purdue connections. This was the restaurant for Howard Johnson's at the time; where everyone went to dance in the late 1970s. There are now many more places to party.
It was much to our relief that we found Arni's still in business. It has actually expanded to many other sites. This was and is a great place for delicious sandwiches, pizza, and jazz. Visiting Purdue was an opportunity to revisit our memories and appreciate the decisions we made so long ago.
Here is Ted's lab and office during his tenure at Purdue. It is in the heart of a huge campus and not a place the casual visitor would see.
We were married here or very near here on June 21, 1980. It is the Purdue Horticulture Park. There were many more flowers and plantings when were married here, so it took us a few minutes to identify the location. We stood here and renewed our commitment to each other - very meaningful.
Jim, husband of my cousin Lettie, has just been checking out the 1950 Studebaker truck in the parking lot of the restaurant where we are in Springfield, IL.
Cousin Beth and her sister, Lettie came to our coach for dinner after treating us to a great time in Springfield, IL.
We drove an hour and a half from Lafayette, IN to Danville, IL, where I spent most of my childhood. The town has lost a lot of industry and many businesses have moved to the north of town. Parts of area look wonderful and others look very neglected. This was a mall where cars were not allowed when my father owned a business here.
This is the mother of my best friend. We took her to lunch and caught up on all the news. She has many interests and reads voraciously. 
Ted and I have not found any place that has custard as good as this place. Lemon is my favorite. On a hot, humid Illinois night, the lines are very long here.
Wednesday we drove to Winamac, IN. It is the county seat of Pulaski County, where my Nichols great, great grandparents were married.
A wonderful Clerk of Records helped us find some genealogy information and then sent us to the city library where we searched; for another 3 hours. 
Isn't this interesting architecture? This is on a corner of the town square.
Winamac has many homes like this and most are in good repair.
Here is another one.
Look at that black dirt and fields that look as though they go on forever. This is the soil of central Illinois and Indiana. I grew to see it as beautiful and I miss it. It grows almost anything.
Ted and I met in Lafayette, IN where Ted was finishing his PhD in Nematology at Purdue University and I was a Title I Coordinator for Lafayette School District. This is the site of our first date about 29 years ago. We had both gone through divorces and met through a group of singles with Purdue connections. This was the restaurant for Howard Johnson's at the time; where everyone went to dance in the late 1970s. There are now many more places to party.
It was much to our relief that we found Arni's still in business. It has actually expanded to many other sites. This was and is a great place for delicious sandwiches, pizza, and jazz. Visiting Purdue was an opportunity to revisit our memories and appreciate the decisions we made so long ago.
Here is Ted's lab and office during his tenure at Purdue. It is in the heart of a huge campus and not a place the casual visitor would see.
We were married here or very near here on June 21, 1980. It is the Purdue Horticulture Park. There were many more flowers and plantings when were married here, so it took us a few minutes to identify the location. We stood here and renewed our commitment to each other - very meaningful.
Jim, husband of my cousin Lettie, has just been checking out the 1950 Studebaker truck in the parking lot of the restaurant where we are in Springfield, IL.
Cousin Beth and her sister, Lettie came to our coach for dinner after treating us to a great time in Springfield, IL.
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