From kindergarten
Through grades 1-8
We learned social skills
And how to care
We spoke of dreams
Of what we wanted to be
There were bullies
Even then-you see
Guys wore crew cuts
Girls teased their hair
Some wore make-up
Many did not care
The Beatles were
Becoming popular
In the US of A
Girls would buy
Beatle's cards
Everyday-
Life was simpler
In the 50's and 60's
Money went farther-
Twenty-five cents
To get into the show
Candy bars
A nickel
Houses were 10,000
Built much better than today
On Sunday
Only the show,
Drugstore were open
Most people went to church
Life is continually changing all around us. Those that lived from the Victorian age to the 1960s saw tremendous change… Electricity… Indoor plumbing… Automobiles… Planes… While I was driving my grandmother, having flown out to San Francisco to meet me at about 650 mph, back to Wisconsin at 90 mph with air-conditioning on Interstate 80, she told me about traveling by ox driven wagon from Arkansas to North Dakota one whole summer where they stayed in farm yards overnight. Since that time, electricity, indoor plumbing, automobiles, and planes haven't changed much. Some technology has.
I'm not so sure technology is good or bad, though we have progressed forward a great deal, we seem to have stepped back to the stone age in compassion and peace...always fighting, always squabling...but that is the way of the world today, gotta live with it or die...-e-
Yeah you're right Deborah. The fifties and sixties were a slower pace society. That house you spoke of? My dad built our house all by himself in the early fifties, for the most part, with me hanging around thinking I was helping him. Had to have help wiring the house up. We even had an outhouse . . . Didn't have indoor toiletry for quite a few years. Had an old Jersey cow for milk and butter, et al, all this inside the city limits of the small town I grew up in. Yep. Things were simpler alright!
Imogene, a country-bred girl, longs to make a life for herself in New York City. She joins forces with her former college roommate to start a movie production company in the big city.
Deputy Dave Jenkins investigates the murder of local high school principal, Jerry Egge, but this is a multi-faceted novel that deals with spiritualism, romance, friendship, and children who fall through the cracks.
"Murder isn't usually this
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Not everything has changed.
Ron
But I forgive you. A fun write.
Love ya!
Jane