A few weeks ago, during a bitter spell of cold weather, I became bored enough to pull out a basket of letters that have been living underneath an old side table for many years. This pile also contained an old diary, a gift I received for my 10th birthday in January of 1964. I wrote in it for just one month before I abandoned my effort. But even that one month’s recording turned out to be very interesting reading – it’s been almost 60 years since I wrote it!
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Laura Tonkyn has spent 40 years becoming as self-sufficient as possible with her jack-of-all-trades husband, Art, on their eight-acre homestead in the Black Hills of South Dakota. She has written/edited for a number of local/regional papers, including the Rapid City Journal and Faces Magazine. Reach her at laura.tonkyn@gmail.com.
Laura Tonkyn
Tri-State Neighbor Columnist
