"Arthur L. Davidson" wrote:

Are you aged enough to have lived in the '30's?
In the hill country of Appalachian area?
Are you still proud of having had the experience?
Are you fortunate enough to remember?::::::::::
.....the first time that you had 'light' bread;
.....your refrigerator being the cold stream behind the house;
.....stoking the fire at night;
.....never having to take a wash tub bath in the summer months;
.....that a rail road track was between your house house and your out house;
.....where you lived when you had your first out house in the house;
.....the much too hot red hot stove pipe that went through the wall;
.....when, if you had a wooden nickel, you would have felt rich;
.....that there were no locks on the doors of your house;
.....the long johns with the trap door;
.....that people being baptized in the cold river water did not get sick;
.....the hot tar bubbles on the road that you used for chewing gum;
.....the meals consisting only of baloney and brown gravy;
.....having your tooth pulled with only the tools of a string and a door;
.....when a person's word was their bond---handshake not required.

Proud and thankful to have been there........Mercer Co., WV.

Arthur