Aunt Alice

  1948

     Alice McCurdy was my second cousin twice removed.  She was my grandmother Sylba's relative and Alice with her husband Earl lived in the old Caldwell farmhouse on Saltsburg Road, Penn Township Verona Pennsylvania. Now Penn Hills

My great grandmother Caldwell lived here. I did to. Not at the same time. 

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We lived on the second floor.  My Father Dale Acklin built the stairs.

I have many memories of Aunt Alice.  

My Manifesto!

I wrote this in 1964, for an Senior English assignment.  I was 17 years old and this was one year after I was chased on North Fork Mountain, West Virginia by Walter Disce.  I felt that I had received an answer to prayer and that I was to dedicate my life to God.  I was going to become a pastor in the Methodist Church.