I remember this like it was yesterday. The Dayton Daily News interviewed us for a story that appeared in their newspaper. It was the first of many such stories that usually happened on or around President Lincoln's February 12th birthday. We were still living in Gordon, Ohio and we had three children—Angela, Chris and Melinda.
The article, from the 1960s, indicated the "Lincolnian" woven about his famous name, he said: "In fact, I got quite a lot of publicity over it all while in Japan. The Hokkaido Times did a large feature and picture story on me. Then one day I walked into a store in the village of Sapporo on the island of Hokkaido. Everyone started whispering and the little children put their hands over their mouths so I couldn't see their smiles. The store owner politely explained in English, "We are highly honored. My family has just recognized your picture from the papers, and we are proud to have a relative of the great Mr. Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves, come into our place. Allow me to personally show you over our store."
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I had said in the story that I wanted to homestead in Alaska and I have recently been watching stories on television about people who moved to Alaska. It is more primitive than I thought back then and the only reason we didn't move was that we had three small children and another on the way, so we stayed in Gordon and eventually moved to Brookville.
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