TELLING YOUR STORY! part 2

Interview continued----------

       "If there's one person that can pass along stories, it's me." I love to tell stories. And, a lot of people you want to talk to are or interview, by the time you think about it, they're dead--they've passed away," he added.
       Laverty and his long time companion, Ilah Morey, recently moved to Iowa County to be closer to her family, renting a house less than a block from Williamsburg High School. He is originally from Marshalltown, where he operated a residential cleaning business, he lived in Des Moines before that, selling real estate.
       Once he accumulated enough material to assemble into a book form, he consulted w a friend at a print shop in Marshalltown. The stories were printed out and bound into booklets, and this has been done quarterly- a process he continues to follow. 
       The books aren't available at any library-they're available to family members - but they'll all be preserved, ready for future generations to read. "Hopefully I live long enough by the time some of these relatives will read them and 2015 will be--"Gee, they did that back in 2015?" he said.
       Just about anything can draw inspiration. When Laverty goes to a University of Iowa football game, for instance, he won't write about the game( anyone can get that from the newspaper the next day, he says) but, he'll focus on people he met, or something interesting he observed. It could also be day trips, a song he's heard on the radio, thinking about memories from the past, or people he encounters on his part-time job at Williamsburg Foods.----" (story from there)---"A young lady is up there, (check-out lane) and she says, "I did something to my arm and it really hurts," she explains. I got up and didn't do anything unusual. I went out and threw a few bales of hay to my horses," that's was when I stopped her and started laughing. "Whoa, you threw a couple of bales and making a throwing motion."your arm hurts? You think maybe there is a connection?" "That's a story that I thought was pretty funny."

--------------------to be continued.