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On the Front Porch with my Grandpa, Earl Conover PHOTO A granddaughter remembers a very special man, and wonderful Sunday visits with him, and the wonderful smell of pipe tobacco there By Heather Jasper When I was younger I remember going to my grandparents house and no matter what the weather, if it was sunny or snowing, my grandpa would be sitting on the front porch smoking his pipe. The front porch always smelled like pipe tobacco, so pipe tobacco is a very comforting smell to me. It reminds me of my grandpa, and growing up near him. Every Sunday, my family would go over to my grandparent's house after church. When we pulled up, he was always on the front porch, waiting for us. Before lunch, he would tell us all these stories about the war, flowers, or of himself when he was growing up. His stories were always very interesting, and really funny. My grandpa loved playing tricks on me. At lunch, he would lay his hand on the table, and he would tell me to smack it. I would pull back, getting ready to smack his hand as hard as I could. At the last second he would pull his hand back, and I would hit the table. He would do this every Sunday, and I would always try to hit him back, but I never could. You would have thought that I would have learned my lesson, but I never quit trying. After lunch, my grandpa would play checkers with me, he was the best checkers player ever! I played with him for 13 years, and I didn't beat him once. Sometimes he would teach me tricks on how to trap someone in a corner of the board, but he of course never fell for them. In 2005, my grandpa died of pancreatic cancer. After his funeral, I walked onto the porch, and for the first time in my life it didn't smell like pipe tobacco. That's when it hit me that he was gone. My grandpa taught me so much, I wouldn't be the same person I am today if I hadn't known him. I wouldn't be willing to work as hard, or be as appreciating towards simple things, like getting to see my family everyday since he didn't have that during his years of being a prisoner of war. I still miss him, but every time I smell pipe tobacco, I remember him. Many articles and photos have appeared in ColumbiaMagazine.com about the late Earl Conover, though none so endearing as this one. To see the list, enter "Earl Conover" in the searchbox. Or, Click Here This story was posted on 2008-03-02 03:38:52
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