1. What is your full name? Why did your parents select this name for you? Did you have a nickname?

Brian Lyle Stewart. I dont know. My sister called me “bri”(br-eye), and I always hated it.

 

2. When and where were you born?

I was born in 1949 in Guilford Maine.

 

3. What is your earliest childhood memory?

My sister’s cat fluffy got hit by a pulp truck. My brother and I found it and brought it to her when she got home from school. She cried for a week.

 

4. What kind of games did you play growing up?

Baseball, tag, baseball, kick the can, baseball.

 

5.Did you receive an allowance? How much? Did you save your money or spend it?

Yeah, I got an allowance, 25¢ a week, and you could go to the movies on that and still have money left over!

 

6.Who were your childhood heroes?

Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone.

 

7.What were your favorite songs and music?

I loved the beatles, I even had a beatles haircut.

 

8.Describe a typical family dinner. Did you all eat together as a family? Who did the cooking? What were your favorite foods?

Mom and Dad would both be at work when we got home from school, and dad would have left milk and crackers out on the counter every day. The weird part is though, I don’t get why he didn’t leave the milk in the fridge because it would always be half sour by the time we got home. Then Mom and Dad would get home and Mom would cook a roast or something like that, burnt as always, and then after dinner we would all listen to the radio.

 

9.How is the world today different from what it was like when you were a child?

Well, everything was a lot cheaper back then, also things were a lot safer. Nobody worried about people breaking into your house on drugs, or stealing your kids, or anything like that.

 

10.Of all the things you learned from your parents, which do you feel was the most valuable?

Work hard, but never forget to have fun.