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A collection of all kinds of stories written by Judy and M.D. Smith that covers a period of 70 years.

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Judy Chandler Smith was born in 1941 and grew up in Huntsville, AL from Age 5 when she successfully recovered from Polio. She has been interested in dance, swimming instructor and sewing. She made her own clothes in her younger and teen years. Took lessons as well as instructing classes in Dance. She married M.D. Smith at age 19 in 1961 while both were still in school at the University of Alabama and in 1963 when M.D. was graduating, had her first son who was named after his father and became M.D. Smith, V. She and M.D. had children during the three decades to follow and the last of eight was born on Christmas Day, 1985. There is a story about that included. She had many jobs including swimming instructor for over 20 years, ran a home day care business, continues with sewing and monogramming selling some of her work all while being the soccer Mom and more to their eight children as they grew up in the Smith household. M.D. (Marcellus Davidson Smith) was born in December 1940 in Birmingham a year before Pearl Harbor and remembers some of the blackouts of WWII at nearly age five. He learned fishing, hunting and gun safety from his father. Going through the BB Gun year, Pellet Gun and later .22 rim fire years hunting small game and great fishing trips with his father, M.D. has always been a bit of an outdoorsman and doing a lot of camping, hikes and every hobby you can imagine with his SEVEN sons as they grew up. His single daughter was Judy's primary charge, and Allison learned all the girl things, along with tom boy stuff from her older and younger brothers. M.D. who intended to be a doctor like his father always said he'd like to have been, changed from Pre-Med to major in Broadcasting in 1960 and after graduating in 1963 with a two month old son, went into the family broadcasting AM Radio business, joined shortly by the first TV station where he continued to work for the next 36 years until he sold the TV station in 1999. M.D. III, as his father was called and M.D. IV learned flying in 1965 and took many trips over the next 20 years. Some stories are in this book. To learn about hobbies he and the kids were involved with, read the book. Judy and M.D. have celebrated their Fifty-Seventh wedding anniversary as this book was being assembled (2018) and look forward to a few more years of staying active, some traveling and time with grown Children and their families. Judy and M.D. have written many stories for Old Huntsville Magazine since 2003.

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