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Winnie H. Riddle
During the Depression Era years, my grandfather worked for the railroad and had to live at wherever location his job needed him to be. Sometimes, he had to work in different towns other than his r...view moreDuring the Depression Era years, my grandfather worked for the railroad and had to live at wherever location his job needed him to be. Sometimes, he had to work in different towns other than his regular place of residence which was located in Syracuse, Indiana. My mother and her sister, the last siblings of a seven children family still living at home, stayed in Syracuse with their grandparents during that time as they were still attending high school. My grandmother would stay with my grandfather for a week or so and then return home and stay with my mother and her sister, about the same length of time. It was during this time, in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s, that she penned the following poems. My grandmother’s married name was Winnie Riddle and that is how she signed, as author, many of her works. She didn’t have a middle name, so sometimes in other poems, that she wrote, she would sign her name as Winnie H. Riddle. The ‘H’ standing for her maiden name, which was Holloway. Some of these poems were published in the local newspaper during the time they were written, which was known as the Syracuse/Wawasee Journal. However, they never reached notoriety beyond those publications. As my grandmother completed writing and then editing each poem to it’s final draft, my mother would then re-type them for her. My mother kept these poems in safe storage through the years, even after my grandmother’s death in 1966.view less