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    Grandaddy Drove an Oldsmobile: Memoirs of Worthington, Ohio in the 1950’S
    Grandaddy Drove an Oldsmobile: Memoirs of Worthington, Ohio in the 1950’S
    Grandaddy Drove an Oldsmobile: Memoirs of Worthington, Ohio in the 1950’S
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    Grandaddy Drove an Oldsmobile: Memoirs of Worthington, Ohio in the 1950’S

    By Thomas Harrison Moore

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    Grandaddy Drove An Oldsmobile is a tale of the 1950's about two skinny twin urchins living in the colonial and historic village of Worthington, Ohio. Their adventures encompass exploring the woods and ravines in Davy Crocket coonskin hats and walking around with their cowboy hats and fanner fifties revolvers. Their love of American cars, family members who are vivid characters,emerging rock and roll music, and their creation of havoc in the village is well told. This is a tale of the innocent years before assassinations, and an asian war that damaged the American psyche itself.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMay 4, 2011
    ISBN9781456748883
    Grandaddy Drove an Oldsmobile: Memoirs of Worthington, Ohio in the 1950’S
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    Thomas Harrison Moore

    Driving To The Darkness is Thomas Harrison Moore's second book, following Grandaddy Drove An Oldsmobile. He was born and raised in Worthington, Ohio during the Eisenhower years of big shiny cars and emerging rock 'n roll. Thomas graduated from Worthington High School in 1964 and started college at Ohio State University. Upon graduation from Ohio State in 1968, he was inducted into the US Army. He was sent to South Vietnam in July, 1969 and was honorably discharged in September of 1970. Thomas traveled to the western United States and settled in Gunnison, Colorado in 1971 for graduate school. After graduation he moved back to Ohio, lived in Wyoming a short time and returned to Ohio. In 1976 Thomas married, and he and his wife moved to Grand Junction, Colorado in 1976. They had two daughters, Courtney and Meredith. Thomas and his wife divorced in 1986, and Thomas moved to Denver, Colorado, where he now resides. He began writing in 2010 and had his first book published in 2011.

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      Book preview

      Grandaddy Drove an Oldsmobile - Thomas Harrison Moore

      Contents

      CHAPTER ONE

      Splinters and Boomer

      CHAPTER TWO

      Uptown

      CHAPTER THREE

      Grandaddy

      CHAPTER FOUR

      Dad

      CHAPTER FIVE

      Bob

      CHAPTER SIX

      Mom

      CHAPTER SEVEN

      Ree

      CHAPTER EIGHT

      Don and Lois

      CHAPTER NINE

      First Grade

      CHAPTER TEN

      Second Grade

      CHAPTER ELEVEN

      Third Grade

      CHAPTER TWELVE

      Fourth Grade

      CHAPTER THIRTEEN

      Fifth Grade

      CHAPTER FOURTEEN

      Sixth Grade

      AFTERWORD:

      The Sixties and the Seventies

      To: Luca and Elsa

      1 George Albert Pingree Civil War better.jpg

      George Albert Pingree Civil War

      2 george Albert Pingree with Bob, Splinters, and Boomer.jpg

      George Albert Pingree with Bob, Splinters, and Boomer

      3 Nancy Cowan Pingree, Wife of William Pingree , born 1809, died 1891.jpg

      Nancy Cowan Pingree, Wife of William Pingree , born 1809, died 1891

      4 Marcella Hammond Pingree and George Albert Pingree, around 1900.jpg

      Marcella Hammond Pingree and George Albert Pingree, around 1900

      CHAPTER ONE

      Splinters and Boomer

      He was known by all as Splinters. However, his formal name was Harrison Pingree. Harrison was his mother’s name. Pingrey was his paternal grandmother’s name. The Pingree clan had been well known in the village of Worthington from their settlement there in the early 1800’s. Aaron and Moses Pingrey, or Pingree, had originally landed from England on the Massachusetts coast and settled in Salem and Rowley, Massachusetts between 1637 and 1639. Splinters knew from his grandmother, Ree, who was Marcella Marie Pingree, that being part of the clan in Worthington was a heritage of which he was to be proud. He disliked such a formal name and liked just being called Splinters. That name described him for the slight and scrawny build he always had. Dad had named him that at age 4, when he jokingly told him he was like a skinny tree branch.

      Splinter’s identical twin brother was Boomer. Boomer was always larger, even at birth. In April of 1946, neither Splinters nor Boomer were expected to live as they weighed about five pounds together. Dr. Seymour assured Mom they would live as he was a famous Columbus pediatrician who was determined of their early survival. So, Boomer spent four weeks in an incubator, and Splinters six weeks. Throughout their lives Splinters remained the scrawny one as Boomer put on weight. Dad told Splinters he was also the scowly one. Boomer and Splinters spent their childhood years in Worthington. They were children of the Truman and Eisenhower era, when people seemed normal and drove shiny chromed cars. Worthington people always waved, beeped or said hello to the twins on the Oak and Hickory tree lined streets of the village, just a few miles directly north of downtown Columbus and Ohio State University. The people seemed happy to have survived a devastating war.

      In 1952 at the age of 6 and around the time Dwight D. Eisenhower won the presidency, Splinters decided he needed to go on a diet, one that would put fat on those bones. The twins’ friend, Jenckes Mowry, had told Splinters a diet of pickles would increase his weight beyond Boomer’s. Splinters begged Mom and Dad to buy him pickles when they shopped at The Home Market or Lemley’s IGA in uptown Worthington. He was over being called by Boomer, The Worthington Weakling. Splinters hated it that even his belly button was an outie not an innie, like most normal Worthington six year olds.

      Being in the first grade and comparing his body to chunkier ones was an embarrassment. So, anytime Mom and Dad would go uptown for groceries or cigarettes, would they please buy him some pickles? But Splinters stayed just as bony, and after a week, Mom said he was to eat all of her meals. She also informed him no one would buy him more pickles. Neither Boomer nor Splinters were fond of Mom’s home cooked meals. They were mainly Johnny Marzetti, stewed tomatoes served with macaroni. Tuna Noodle Casserole was served at least once a week. It consisted of canned tuna, mushroom cream soup and potato chips. But there were no noodles. Mom was a wonderful lady and mother, but an awful cook.

      Worthington was founded in 1803 by Connecticut settlers, mainly the Kilbournes, Pinneys and Griswolds. It was a town of woods and creeks, where two little urchins dressed as Davy Crockett felt right at home. They roamed those deep woods and crossed those clear creeks, or cricks, as Davy would have called them. Their coonskin hats were a part of their exploration outfit, even on a hot summer day. Ohio, though, must have been cooler than those hills of Tennessee Davy used to explore. The twins sang Davy Crockett, the version by Fess Parker from the movie on the Walt Disney Show. Bill Hayes also had a version of the song, but Fess played the real Davy. The song was about being born on a mountain top in Tennessee. They also sang the Alamo song about how Davy was saying farewell to the mountains just before his violent death by Santa Ana and his Mexican troops. Splinters sometimes cried when he sang that song.

      Boomers and Splinters also roamed the streets of uptown Worthington. Mom did not allow them to wear scruffy clothes or coonskin caps uptown, as Worthington people dressed well in town. Too many residents and business owners knew the twins, and fashion was important. As it was, they did resemble english urchins with their straight brown double cowlick hair, which was plastered with Butch Cream, Brylcream, or total messed up hair. Of course, that could always be changed by a fashionable pineapple haircut by Bob Sheets. They loved the automobile showrooms of Chevrolet and Ford. On the exciting day every September, they walked uptown to Mahlon Maxton Chevrolet and around the corner to Worthington Ford. They loved to climb

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