A Story! A Story!!!
Welcome to the storyland of Marilyn Kinsella. The landscape is full and rich. It started in a small Southern Illinois community called just plain "Fairview" at the time. Over the years the landscape has changed. It has risen to new heights with strip malls and interstates. But, seen through the eyes of a storyteller, all the views are fair in Fairview Heights. Join me as I tell some of the stories:
Click on the Story you would like to read:
STORIES OF PLACE
STORIES of PEOPLE:
 | A Pleasant Ridge - history of the Kinsellas |
| On a Wing and a Prayer - Grandpa Joe and Chris |
| Class Act - My dad |
| June 19th - a letter to Drew from her Great Grandpa |
| Little Things Make a Big Difference - My Aunt Ethel |
| Our Diamond in the Rough - Rita, Recipes, and Ritaisms |
| The Day the Angels Sang - My mother |
| A Yankee Doodle Dandy - A birthday/memorial tribute to my brother Bill. |
| Les Miserables - The grandpunster...my Uncle Les. |
| My Great Aunt Annie, the Belle of the Ball |
| Lucky Troop 13 - little story about Girl Scouts |
| One Hundred and One Uses of my Grandpa's Cane |
| Time Brings Roses: An Autobiography of a Budding Artist |
Old Pictures of the Niemann Clan 1880-1950's
Niemann family through the years 1938-1973
Old Pictures of the Klein Family:
| 4 Generations of Hansis;Laumann/Klein 1906 |
| History of the Klein House |
| Klein House Home circa 1913 |
| Living Room circa 1956 |
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