“Climbing the Hills and Finding the Rivers” is a manuscript by Marji Smock Stewart and her husband William Stewart. The title phrases are touchstones of life for them, she said; his in the first part and hers in the second.
It is the story of their lives, written for their family, shared here by me. I sometimes altered the arrangement of the content and edited for length, but the words are theirs.
The family photos are also theirs, but I added them and some others to these posts.

Part 1: Monroe Smock, Kentucky
July 29, 2019

August 5, 2019

Part 3: Smocks in Gladewater TX
August 13, 2019

Part 4: Smocks on the Ohio River
August 20, 2019

Part 5: River Pilot, Air Pilot
August 27, 2019

Part 6: 1945 A Year to Remember
September 3, 2019

Part 7: 35 Cent Grilled Cheese
September 11, 2019

October 27, 2019

Part 9: Lum and Sarah McDonald
November 19, 2019

March 27, 2020

Part 11: Kentucky to Minnesota
April 19, 2020

May 25, 2020

November 11, 2019

June 30, 2020

August 22, 2020

September 27, 2020