Heritage+Stories-Yankasky,+mark

Almost orphaned my grandmother was born in 1940. Althoughshe dosn't rember the gread depression she does rember buying flour with tokens like are moderen day food stamps. She lived with her mother,grandfather,three sisters,two brothers,and her grandma. she was almost orphaned because her grandfather didn't want all the kids running around his house so he told his wife to bring them to the orphage. Unwarily she was loaded into a car to go look at the churches orphanage (at the time she thought they were going there to adopt someone). Luckly for them her grandma was a vary strong willed woman so when she saw the terrible condition of the orphanage (according to my grandmother it smelled terrable because when a kid wet the bed they would just hang up the sheets to let it dry.) when her grandma went home she told her husband that I the kids go she will ﻿to.

=Animal hospitalty= Another story she told me was about her brothers dog. First off you should know that when my grandma was allowed to bring home stray animals because she was the baby of the family. However when her oldere brother decided to adopt a stray dog her grandfather took it out to shoot it. In the woods he raised his gun and was ready to fire when the dog took off. The dog held the deer back long enough for him to shoot it needless to say the dog stayed.

=loose ends= durring the time of WWII her grandfather didnt want the neighbors smelling sourcrout. she grew up in the 60's her uncil teached her to love polka's (and she still dances __every__ sunday)