Posted on 06/07/2004 9:25:18 PM PDT by Salvation
By "read the stars", she probably meant to identify constellations. Reagan was close to my grandfather's generation, and he taught me the same thing. It was very common knowledge for country and small town people back then, although today almost no one other than sailors really study the night sky (in fact, in the city, you can't even see it properly.)
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