Saturday.. What was NOT and now IS,,

 Picture of the day:

Options, go back and get a horse to help pull, or a shovel and wait until it dries up some. It is stuck!

 So, for today:

Susan K, over at ‘thecontemplativecat’ posted an entry lately concerning life and her family. How she was raised on a farm and now in southern California (I think) looks back at life and its changes.

As I read that I smiled at many things that I remembered much the same. Especially how rural roads in our locations were seldom paved and there ain’t a more nasty thing than a muddy road in central NC where the ground is much RED MUD.  Slicky, sticky, and nasty. LOL

Growing up I was not allowed to go to the Show (movie). The Show was a sin. STRANGE that; how we changed.  Just last week, in our church the pastor was telling of his favorite movies (same denomination). (?) BUT as a boy I had to sneak to see a show enough to learn how much fun it was to see the Sat. morn cowboy movies (Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, etc).  The Movie had a Serial and a cartoon. The cost was a dime to get in; popcorn was 15 cents and a drink was a dime. So my Sat morning max entertainment cost was 35 cents. Many times I could only come up with the dime to get in. LOL

Many Americans had a tough time in the USA.  Some were treated terrible.

Did you know for many years women could not vote or hold public office. In 1869 only the state of Wyoming (I think) allowed that. Odd too was that Blacks were allowed to vote before women were.

I grew up in a segregated world. We white kids down south never questioned that, it was ‘the way it was’. You talk about a surprised Southern world, the production of a movie called “Blackboard Jungle”. We saw a school with black and white kids in the same classrooms, WOW.  Unless you experienced that, you CANNOT understand the shock.

I can say this, in our home, EVERYONE was considered the same, God’s children. My mama and dad were raised in an even more segregated era BUT, I heard my mama say many times. “I will never understand how we Christians gladly send money to Africa to help black people, while here in America we have people who will not even sit with them on a bus.” Our public busses forced the Black people to sit in the back of the bus. Examples: Claudette Colvin and then Rosa Parks!

Have you noticed any earth shaking changes in your time or where you were raised?

Nite Shipslog

PS:

Some folks say Sherry and I are Gypsies…  I guess we are, in lifestyle…. ;-)