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                 How well 'I remember when I first saw and heard a radio. Mr. Wimberly and his wife

           had opened up a little country store and were the first ones in our community who bought a
           radio. They insisted that everyone come to their store to listen to their radio.
                 Pa was real interested in listening to the news. He took us to Mr. Wimberly’s store
           after supper one night a week. I really thought that was something big! I still remember just

           how that radio looked. I was just amazed that the sound of people talking, singing, and
           playing musical instruments came out of that box. Until this day, I’m still stupid about
           airwaves and such things. Science has made great progress during my lifetime.
                 We began hearing that airplanes were coming into existence and that people could fly

           to wherever they wanted to go in a very short time. People said how silly it was to believe
           that something as big as an airplane would actually stay up in the air. It wasn’t too long after
           we had heard these rumors that someone came by our house and said that an airplane had

           landed down in Tim Witt’s cornfield. Pa took us over to see this strange flying contraption.
           Sure enough, a pilot in a small plane had made an emergency landing because of engine
           trouble. The pilot got someone from Lake City to fix the engine that afternoon;, and he 1'eft
           the next morning.
                 And talk about prices! When I was a kid, we could buy a loaf of bread hot at the

           bakery in Lake City for five cents, a soda pop for five cents, and sewing fabric for five and
           ten cents a yard. A nickel bought enough stamps to mail a letter and two postcards. Gas was

           eleven cents a gallon, and we bought a brand new Chevy coupe for $600.
                 I was bom before all of these inventions: penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox
           machines, plastic, contact lenses, the tpill, radar, credit cards, lasers, telephones, ball-point
           pens, panty hose, dishwashers, washing machines, clothes dryers, electric blankets, aif

           conditioners, drip-dry clothes, computers, rockets to outer space. I was 61 years old when
           man walked on the moon.










                 In the early years of my marriage, I wanted to learn how to sew so I could make my

           own clothes. I had watched Ma sew; she had taught me how to hem and do hand sewing so I
           could save her time. She taught me how to embroider. She made Opal and Fay little dresses
           and gave them to me to embroider whatever I wanted.




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