This is a 175th anniversary history/family history.

This is the most amazing story of unbelievable, exciting as well as frightening stories in a human being’s life. The author calls them “Happenings” and relates them to you, the created (or evolved) person reading this story. In reading this, you may know or awaken to what is there, in this world and in the life of all of us. As he deeply questioned and seriously defined what happened to him, he discovered that it has also happened to everyone he talked with too! He felt that he could not lose the opportunity of giving back the truth and positive value of the happenings for you. As you read into this, weigh and think carefully and wisely about “Happenings”...what they mean...what they can do to us all. It is a hopeful belief by the author that you too may awaken to what is out there for you. The author urges that in reading his account you might recall this special quotation which directs and advises you in how to consider this and all: “In truth, throughout all of history there is only one story to be told. This is the story of how a created being was given the freedom to choose and what this being has done with that choice.” Rabbi David Fine The author believes that how you might think, react, feel, in your evaluation of these happenings is important to your life. He urges you, choose wisely.

A few years ago Dan McVickar began writing about his life’s experiences starting with the era of World War II when he was a small boy. Dan grew up in the small rural town of Sumner, IL. Living there was frugal but mostly pleasant. The notable exception was Dan’s experience at age 14 with being the target of religious hysteria during a church revival. High school was relatively carefree with studies directed toward studying engineering in college. The study of the atom in physics class ignited a lifelong passion for learning more about the nature of creation, i.e. the universe.