In 1947 my parents bought 10 acres of the former army camp, Camp Reynolds. They then bought a barrack which my dad turned into a house, a garage and a small shed. I came along in 1950.

In 1960 we built a multi-level home and I lived there till 1974 when I went to WV to teach 5th grade.

I lived in WV till 1990.
Note: I came home from WV in the summers and the holidays.

My first 2 years in WV I lived in Gifford and Nola Webb's Rooming House in Whitesville. It was located across the street from the Theater. I had a large room and a shared bathroom, kitchen and living room.  The second year they remodeled to make more rooms and I ended up with a smaller room.

The next year I rented a house behind the Laundromat. It was a steep hike up the hill, around 30 steps or more. It was my first time seeing cockroaches. I think they rearranged my furniture at night.

My parents had brought down a refrigerator with some other things. They parked on the street by the Laundromat and we were trying to figure out how to get the refrigerator up the stairs.

About this time a truck pulled up and Bear Daniels got out. He asked if he could help and we explained that we were trying to figure out a way to get the refrigerator up the stairs. He grabbed the refrigerator by himself and carried it up the stairs to the house.

The following year I rented an apartment in Pettus Bottom, in Raleigh in County about 2 miles out of the town of Whitesville (Boone County).  You had to cross a bridge on the right. After crossing the bridge you turned right and about 40 yards there was a Block Plant (no longer in operation).

There was a flight of steps on the outside to get to the apartments.
There were four apartments on that level, 2 on the right and 2 on the left. There was also an apartment on the 3rd floor which Mrs. Bailey (the other 5th grade teacher) and her husband lived. I lived in the second apartment on the right. It was nice and spacious. I had a kitchen, and bathroom off the kitchen. It had a nice size living room  another room and a bedroom. I liked it there.

While living there I bought an old house across the street in 1977.  
I turned it into "Art's Rooming House" for guys that were doing construction work at the mines. Once the construction work slowed down I moved from the Block Plant over to one of the apartments in the rooming house in 1979 and stayed there a couple of years.

In 1980-81 I torn down the rooming house with the help of Truman Long (Flame) and Ross (Pyro) a friend from PA. My dad, mom, sister and my friend Ross came down and we built a 28' by 26' house. I lived there until 1990.

In 1990 my mom died and I moved back to the the homestead after the school year ended. I lived there until I sold the place in May 2006.

I then moved to Shelocta PA to live with my sister and her husband from May to December 2006.

In December 2006 I moved to a apartment in Greenville PA. Owned by my friend Ben at the time who had a printing shop two buildings down the street from my apartment. I still live in that apartment.