Volume 8 , Issue 40

Hermit's Home Sweet Home - East of Alva, OK

"I?m attaching a link to one of two photos I?ve posted of a familiar landmark along highway 64 east of Alva, Oklahoma a few miles. I?ve been curious about this little house since I was a little kid. Was it originally a railroad boxcar? Who lived in it? Did a family live there? or a hermit? Here's the URL to link to the photo. Hermit's Home Sweet Home (East of Alva, OK).

[Editor's Note: This NW Okie remembers that place east of Alva, OK. We've been in the boxcar east of Alva. We believe it was in the late 1950's when we lived down on 703 7th Street, Alva, OK, next door to the Quention Hadwiger family. Our younger sister, Amber, and myself went out east of Alva one day with Meredith Hadwiger, her daughter Joy (who was my age) and her younger brother, Joe. We had been or were going to their farm east of Alva and stopped by one of their friends farm that set across highway 64 from this old boxcar. Amber, Joy and I went across the road to visited with the old man that lived there. I can't remember too much about him, but the impression of the way he lived had a big impact on my life way back then when I was just a young thing. I wish I could recall if it was a relative of the the people who lived across the highway from this old boxcar that was home sweet home for the hermit, but memories are vague. Can't even recall the old man's name. It's been along time since that glance of the inside of that old hermit's habitat. -- NW Okie]
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