...Memories and Musings of Helen Benjamin Jagen

We were a very close family of happy children and parents of the best kind, living on a farm in the Connecticut Valley. With ten children, there was no need to go outside the family for companionship. During out preschool years no one existed outside the family. Even after the children were old enough to attend the public school, they hurried back home after classes to the warmth and the love that was at home. Brothers and sisters complemented each other in games, schoolwork, work indoors and out on the farm. We all banded together to serve each other and our parents.