9 Life History --- 1957 Mom Remarried - Suffield and Randolph

Arthur John Merrick

I was eleven and we were living on Elm Drive when Mom met and married (a week later), Arthur ‘John’ Merrick, the trash collector.  He took us to a scary movie at the drive-in; I called him ‘Pop’.  

Ken, Mel, Gary Merrick

Thus began our traveling life.  We soon moved to a converted garage home in Suffield Ohio, right next to another swamp, which we thought was great - another place for fun and adventure; but, it was less interesting than Blue Pond.  We had two collie dogs named Duke and Snoozie (I got to choose the name), two other dogs, and a large doghouse.  We rode the school bus for the first time, had an outhouse, and the dogs on the bed kept us warm in winter.  We weren’t there long before we moved to a two-level house in Randolph.  We walked to school from here the last half of the school year.

our home in the garage

Mel, boy, Gary, Ken, Edith

Easter Mel, Ken, Gary

garage we lived in