Byron Martin:  

Life Remember a Coke cost you 13 cents, Castlehaven, the old high school and banana seat bicycles. Dairy Queen banana splits were on special at 29 cents. Living in Edwardsville now I don't remember the rivalry everyone else does. Maybe because I use to kick the daylights out of them on the track and in cross country. My kids laugh when I still say the "New" high school (1973). Best looking cheerleaders. Kids run my life now. It's great. I've seen a few old friends and met some new ones from my days in Collinsville. Having lived in Chicago, California, Arizona, and traveled all 48 lower states with my medical career it is nice to settle back into the area. I keep hearing everyone talk about retirement and I can't ever see that being me. I spend some time in Florida with the family (4 kids) all the way south in Naples. I spend my winters working with the wrestling programs in the Metroeast area coaching and watching my kids participate. I didn't realize what a sport it was and how close knit the community of wrestling is until my oldest went out. I think my good friends from high school; David Fedder, Andy Marchiando, Tom Correll, Don Kerkemeyer, Tom Fitzgerald would find it all strange for me to say this but I think it the best sport. No where to run, all eyes staring forward. Maybe it is because after a bicycling accident during a race in New Orleans in 1984 I ruined any chance I ever had at running again. My favorite city is the "windy" one to the north that really doesn't get it's name from the weather but the chastizing of New York writers prior to the World's Fair of 1893. Spent a lot of time there and is the reason I ended up in sleep medicine. I ...Expand for more