I was born in 1952 in New Braunfels.

Throughout the 1950s my father sharecropped cotton and corn on land which included the present day Sattler VFW. Most of my 12 siblings attended Mountain Valley School. During the school year, we took off time to work the harvest.

We also had a large garden. In the sixties, the family relocated down River Road between 3rd and 4th Crossings. The work was hard, everyone knew everyone and it was generally a pleasant place to live. [more]