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Jay Bynum
“In 1905, when cross-faith marriages were rare, my mother, daughter of a Baptist minister, married the grandson of a Catholic doctor. He’d finished and enlistment in the US Cavalry below Canada. I ...view more“In 1905, when cross-faith marriages were rare, my mother, daughter of a Baptist minister, married the grandson of a Catholic doctor. He’d finished and enlistment in the US Cavalry below Canada. I was the 8th of 9 children. We all went to one-room schools, helped on the family farm. I served 3 years in WWII, started college in San Francisco, finished a BA at UKC, an Med at KU, a PhD at UMKC, taught in France, Panama, Australia. Married a lovely Polish girl: we had 3 children, 6 bright grandchildren. I wrote Antic Creedoolies and Sallad Dayes. Never lived in Amherst.”view less