Les Robinson No, my little brother was born here. 

Shyanne Bellamy  Okay. 

Les Robinson  He was the 12th of Mom and Dad’s 11 children, and the only one who was not born at home. Most of us were born with the help of a midwife, but a few of them had a doctor present. But most were, all the rest were born at home. Out of those 12 births, three of them died in infancy, and that may have been due to lack of proper prenatal care. Not sure about that, but there were out of the 12, nine of us survived to adulthood, and we’ve had my older sister died at 95 earlier this year. My brother, who’s here today, will be 92 in a couple weeks. Another brother will be 90 in a couple of weeks, and I’ll be 89 in about three weeks, and my younger brother will be 76 in December. So we’ve been blessed with a long life. What I wanted to share was, at the time that I was growing up, this facility here had been somehow taken over by the Seventh Day Adventists, although it had been started by Presbyterians. And Dr. Urquhart was the doctor. Dr. Urquhart was the doctor here, and his wife came to the surrounding communities and picked up children to come to Sabbath school in the building up on the hill up here at the church, and we had Sabbath school up there on Saturday mornings. I would go to my local Baptist church on Sundays, but we’d come over here on Saturdays. And one day, when Mrs. Urquhart was waiting down at the foot of the hill, waiting for us to get there, I was running, had on a new pair of blue jeans, I recall, and I was running to get down there to keep her from having to wait so long, and I fell and tore a hole in my blue jeans and tore a hole in my knee also, and later on, after we got up here, Dr. Urquhart took me into the clinic there and put several stitches in that flap that had been torn loose, flap of skin there. And I don’t know. Before I went off to school, Dr. Urquhart had moved away, I think, or along about that time. So, I never really knew much about what happened with the family after that, and that was one reason I wanted to come. I wondered if there was sort of a history of this place or anything. Do you has anybody prepared something like that? 

Shyanne Bellamy  No, but I would love to hear. Like, do you know the history of like how the building was first built? 

Les Robinson  I knew that that Mrs. Robinson came here as a missionary from Pennsylvania, I believe. I found this out later and established sort of a mission here, and she taught crafts and taught women things that they could do to earn money, you know, because that’s back in probably during the depression, and I never knew her. But then eventually, at some point, Doctor Ost was the the doctor at that time, and then after he retired, or after the Presbyterians turned it over to Seventh Day Adventist, Doctor Stanley Urquhart became  the doctor here, and he delivered babies. He delivered, I guess, I don’t know the time frame, but I guess Dr. Ost had delivered children, and then Dr. Urquhart did too. But I’m curious as to when that started because Eddie’s my younger brother and is three years younger than me, and he was born here. I was born at home when a midwife came and helped mom deliver me, so I don’t know if that is a maternity operation open during that three years, or whether mom and dad had been successful with midwives and may have just continued to use the midwife even though. coming here would have been optional, okay. And that’s really about all that I have to add. I do have memories of coming here for treatment, maybe for sore throat and stuff like that, and I’ve been back here in probably 70 years or a close to it.