Originally Posted by Daisy144

When I was a girl living in my dinky hometown in the country I dreamed of leaving and never comming back because nothing ever happened here. There were three - four families in the town and most people was kin to at least two - three of them. The Daddies were the only ones who worked and took the only car with them leaving a town of children and women. The women would get their house work done of a morning and many afternoons were spent visiting with neighbors and/or family members. They would have Stanley, Tupper, and Sarah Coventry parties. They would prepare Vacation Bible lessons and Sunday Schhool lessons while we kids would roam the hills (can't now because of the coyotes and other wildlife that hss ben reintroduced into the area) and play in the big field across from house. Our town didn't receive telephones until I was in the 6th grade (approximately 1960) but it was surprising how fast news traveled. Everyone in the town knew the kids and we were expected to be respectful to any and all grownups, so, if they yelled out of their house for you to stop doing something you'd better stop because your mom would sure know about it by the time you got home - someone earlier mentioned that they mentioned the innocense of the earlier times so do I