Article: Long Ago Summers With Long Ago Ways
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Long Ago Summers With Long Ago Ways
Summertime stirs memories. Cool dank air rising from the well. And the warmth of sun and family love.
Mother and Dad taught eight months a year in the small town of Jonesboro in Southern Illinois. In the 1940s, that meant no salary for four months. They survived summers by renting our home and moving to their farm near Goreville. Summer cash income was mostly the rent money and a few dollars from eggs and cream sold at General Vaughn's store. How rich we were however! As teachers, they felt life on the farm could teach their children about pioneer living.
Mother gardened to feed us. Dad milked cows and taught me and Jim, my brother, to do so. We had mushrooms to hunt, poke salad to cut, and blackberries to pick and feast on. Daddy took us fishing, and he taught us how...
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