I was born in 1939 as one of ten children. I slept on a straw tick. We heated and cooked with a big old Columbian wood-fired cookstove. Our lighting was Aladdin and RayOLite kerosene lamps until 1946. I got my weekly bath in a galvanized tub. Our entertainment was a battery radio. One of my first jobs at 7 years old was to harrow a field for planting corn driving a team of mules, Mary & John. Our “bathroom”: was a two-holer toilet about 60 yards from the house. Every drop of water we used had to be carried from a springhouse 50 yards from the house....the opposite direction from the toilet. And I wouldn’t trade the experience for anything.
And I wouldn’t trade the experience for anything.