This is the story of my life from 1940 to 1959, before my birth to high school graduation. I was born in Chicago and raised in two small towns in West Virginia - Dunbar and Nitro, suburbs of Charleston. My mother was a homemaker who grew up in Charleston. My dad was a welder who grew up in a share-cropping family in the southwest. I was oldest, followed by two brothers and a sister. There are lots of pictures showing life at the time in that place.