Bonnie's Books

1.  The weather app said it was drizzling at my location.  When I opened my blinds, I saw the little white "raindrops" floating up...

1.  Do you remember the story of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott?  That novel follows the lives of the four March sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth...

1.  Look what I got in the mail:  A package from my daughter that was wrapped in JOY . 2.  Time for a confession.  Everyone knows that old a...

Here's an old photo of me with my great-granddaughter Raegan.  I was leaving my daughter's house to drive home to St. Louis in 2014...

A bunch of us laughed and talked over root beer floats and ice cream sundaes served by the Crown Center staff in the Café a few weeks ago.  ...

Signal Mountain Road is the Highway up and across Signal Mountain near Chattanooga Tennessee. The road is wider now, and those trees on the...

Here are Bonnie, Lauree, and Donna in 2019, when Lauree made a presentation at the Crown Center.  Why am I featuring this today?  It's f...

How many of these places still exist, and how many have changed in some way? The Hotel Patten building still exists, but it became apartment...

Here's a streetcar on Market Street between 6th and 7th Streets in the 1940s in downtown Chattanooga.  When I was a very little girl, I ...

Here's a train ad from 1947.  I took my first train ride from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Florida with my Aunt Bonnie in 1947, when I was ...

Here's a view from a streetcar on the side of Signal Mountain taken June 20, 1914.  The Tennessee River can be seen (barely) off in the ...

I remember Miss Griffin's Footlong Hot Dog stand when it looked like this and stood on a tiny triangle between streets.  It was directly...

Somebody posted a video on Facebook about driving up the back side of Signal Mountain.  It made me wonder if there's also a YouTube vide...

Who can remember their childhood home phone number, but struggle to remember the password they created yesterday?  A Facebook friend posted...

I was looking for something else on my blog when I came across an old post from January 20, 2012.  It made me laugh, so I'm sharing ...

For Christmas 2003, I gave each of my grandchildren a piece of history, a story about their ancestors.  Everyone got a different tale, whi...

For Christmas 2003, I gave each of my grandchildren a piece of history, a story about their ancestors.  Everyone got a different tale, whi...

"The biggest obstacle we've had to deal with as a group was the reformatting of the Oprah book club website.  We ended up losin...

The Tennessee river was frozen over in Chattanooga on January 27, 1940, when Earl Dowlen took this picture.  He wrote the date on the back...