Friends seem surprised to see my book in print. Perhaps after 17 years of mostly not working on it, my family's story seemed more a figment of my imagination than anything else. It's about my parents and a little of the three generations before them. For those like me who are genealogy nuts, there's an abbreviated family chart in the back of the book. If you don't like that stuff, ignore it. That would put you in league with most people I know, including my brother, who wonders why I, "spend so much time on those dead people."
The words of Ruth Viola Meredith and those of John Webb Kellogg form much of the story. They come from her early diaries, starting in 1925 when she was 18 and from John's autobiography, written when he was about to celebrate his 75th birthday in 1974. There are 25 pictures as well, mostly from the 1920s and 1930s. You know what they say about pictures - worth 1,000 words!
If I can figure out how to do it, I'll include some pictures from the first half of the last century in this blog. I also plan to quote Ruth and John, giving you a peek inside their world. It was not stress free, especially when World War II broke out. The rubber from Manilla that John used to make bandage was gone. It didn't stop him on his path to success, but it slowed him down until he came up with a way around it.
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