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Includes index.

Book I was written during November and December 1990 and presented with love to the Smith children and their families on Christmas Day, 1990. Book II was written primarily between January and April 1991, and presented with love to the Smith family on the day of Lester and Stella Mae Smith's Golden Wedding Anniversary, May 3, 1991.

Book I: Grandfather- William Spencer Smith: The Civil War: Mathematics: Coming to Alabama-Down the Tennessee: Living in Stevenson: Moving to Scottsboro: An Orphan Boy: Aunt Mollie Smith Howell: Uncle Joe Smith: Uncle Arvel (John A.) Smith: Dad--Matthew Smith: Sister-Beatrice "Bea" Smith Callahan: Sister -Emma Smith Tuminello: Mother - Ida Bell Metcalf Smith: Her Parents- Jasper and Jane Bourgh Metcalf: Her grandparents- The Bourghs and the Metcalfs: Hidden Money: Early Scottsboro: A Confederate Soldier: Other Things I Remember about Home: Churning Butter; Good Eating; Sweet Potato Hills; Hog Killing Time; Peddling; Making Pine tar; Making Syrup; Making Lye for Lye Soap; Samuel Lester Smith: School Days; The Picture Show Business; Aircraft- Pearl Harbor- and Eventually to St. Louis; McDonnel Aircraft; A Helicopter in the Smithsonian; More about St. Louis; More about Flying; Solo-ing; A Little More about my family: Closing Thoughts- "Youth" by Samuel Ullman; Appendix: Some Smith Family Birthdates; Some Photographs; Book II The following is a collection of writings by Samuel Lester Smith. Most penne between January and April, 1991 as an appendum to one of the Things I Remember about the Smith Family: The Smith family farm: concerning the House of Happiness; Smith farm-continued; The Store; The Roads- How They Affected the Store; More about the Farm; other family Members; "Cotton Age"- The Gin; After Cotton - The livestock Phase of farming; Scottsboro People and Landmarks: Remembering an Old Soldier of the Civil War; Salt Peter Cave; The Kettles; The Cave; Bats; Surveying the Cave; Processing salt Peter; Gunpowder; More on the Bats; Payne Drug store- A Landmark- 122 Years: The "Real" Drug Store; A Little about the Payne Family; The Scottsboro Boys: Convict Burned to Death: The Rural Mail Carrier- "Old Timey Mailman": Waco Thomas; Riding The Route; Waco's Brother- Lawton Thomas; Ervin Treece - A Friend: The Rolling Store: A Community Dipping Vat and Stock Law: The Stock Law; More about Dipping Cattle; Stories of Civil War: "Just Thoughts": Our Cousin- Boyd Metcalf; True Story About A Bald Eagle and A Rattlesnake; New Home Baptist Church: Writing I (General Information); Writing II (History); The House of Happiness Story As Remembered: The McCutchen School and the House of Happiness; A Little More About the School; A Little More about the Big House; The Name "House of Happiness"; Some of My Experience As A Farmer-As Remembered: Plows And Implements; More about Plowing - Our Mules- and a Tractor; My Return to the Farm; Crops: Livestock and Grain; Tractors; Unit Tests farmer; Farming Associations / Other farmers; farming - Further Thoughts; Proverbs 30.;18-19: Looking back ON Fifty Years: St. Louis; Nashville; Children; Reflections; To the Past, Present, and Future; Writings, by Emma Smith Tuminello: Miscellaneous Memories; "Granny Smith" Other Memories - Rural Life; Appendix: "Soap Like Grandma's"; "Bread Baking is very Fulfilling" "Remember Granny's Vinegar Pie?"; Jesse Culp's "Cross Roads": Where Some Of The Smiths are Buried Index: