Shirley Small lives in sunny Las Vegas these days. As a young mother of three, she held down the fort at their Battle Creek home while her husband went from carpet salesman to music legend. Shirley was married to Charles Westover, who became better known as Del Shannon. She’s 84 now. Six decades ago, the couple lived in Brown’s Trailer Park, 1301 Avenue A in Springfield. In the years after the Second World War, with a housing shortage, trailer parks were springing up everywhere and were thought of as a modern innovation. Shirley remembers going to the little store at the entrance to the park to pick up milk for the kids. .