After the war normalcy returned. Bill went back to Hanlon Pipe Line Company and the family lived in a house just outside New London on the road to Overton. I have no memory of those years. My brother Bob was born in Tyler in 1947, and soon afterward Dad was promoted to superintendent of the Warren Petroleum gasoline plant northeast of Gladewater, in the northern portion of the East Texas oil field. Just east of the plant was the Warren Camp, 30 or so white houses where the plant workers and their families lived.
My grandmother Minnie Key McAllister (1877-1980) reads to me at the house outside New London. Minnie was a prolific writer of poetry and short stories. Not many were published, but she gave it her best shot. I thought of her often while writing, and trying to sell, my story.