

Part 70: I Used to Steal Candy
©Stacya Shepard Silverman Riley Shepard’s Promise 2021 All Rights Reserved After Riley had the blow out with our old landlord, we arrived...


Part 69: Jan & Riley Separate, Riley Hides The Encyclopedia of Folk Music From The Publishers
Below is a single page from Riley's journal with only two things written on it. The scribbled circle and arrows are mine, trying to...


Part 68: Riley's Brother Victor, The Brown Derby, Riley's Bonanza Girlfriend.
Riley made reservations at The Brown Derby, a restaurant where he hung out in the bar with famous people like Gene Autry, and where...


Part 67: Riley and Jan, Mae West, More About Halo Meadows
Below, my mother, Jan as a teenager. © copyright 2019-2022 Stacya Silverman. All rights reserved. My parents first met in Reading,...


Part 66: My Father, Riley Shepard
Photo by Thomas Schworer I grew up in a cloud of my father’s cigar smoke, listening to the tapping sounds from his Corona typewriter, the...