Last summer of the 1960s
I loved this house in Billings. In the mid-1960s, our summer vacations to Montana changed. The Feeleys left the “old homestead”. My Aunt Marcella was a nurse, and for many years had commuted to the small town of Forsyth to work, while and taking care of 7 children and doing all of the chores on the farm that fell to her lot. She got a job at the Deaconess Hospital in Billings, and Uncle George was hired at the County Courthouse. We were there the summer they moved, and I thought it was exciting (I guess the nostalgia of leaving the home place didn’t hit me very hard.) They rented what seemed to me to be a mansion on North 32 nd Street in Billings: I called it a 3-story house although one of those was the basement, and I guess people didn’t coun...