Flashback in time to the late 1940's. The missing change.

Across the street live the Briggs family they had two boys and a girl. Jack was the oldest, Lee was my age. I have forgotten his sisters name. That's something that thought I would never forget(Milly I think). Not for the reason you might think
My mother kept a small jar that she collected change. A habit she kept up to the day she passed away. During the late 1940's a nickel or dime bought much more that it does today.every now and again I would pilfer a dime or two from the jar. Needless to say ever time I took a coin Mother would find out and I would pay the ultimate price. After that I never touch her spare change again.
The change kept disappear and in larger amounts and I got blamed for it and punished. It was not until many years later the girl Milly from across the street confessed that she had stolen the money. I saw a look in my Mothers eyes that I never seen before or after ...



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George Washington planted the idea of a day set aside for giving thanks for all the good of the past year. The underlying idea was that a civil agency would follow up.
Sarah Joseph Hale in 1846 began a 30 year long effort of letter writing to the President to declare a national day of thanksgiving along the lines that George Washington had started. In 1863 Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as s national day of thanksgiving
In 1939 FDR proclaim the last Friday as thanksgiving. Roosevelt
rational was as the depression was coming to an end a holiday before a Saturday would be a benefit to business. The America public
was so outraged at this that in 1941 Congress declared the last Thursday as a national holiday.
It would seem that FDR had the original idea of Black Friday...

Seventy one years ago the American public rallied against what they perceived as a wrong. The public began a letter writing campaign to congress that Congress was forced to take action. Their action was to pass the law stating the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving
A campaign of letters/emails to your congress person might have more effect than the National Op-out day has had ...

Parker Girls

early 1940's

Sometime during the early 40's I remember living in a duplex apparent the other family there last names Was the Parkers and they had two daughters one was Older than me and the other younger. The house was on top of the highway embankment that was a major highway as for as roads of that time. Across the road was a larger open area bound by a railroad tracks, a couple of roads and a large number of paths crisscrossed the mostly swamp. A great place for a bunch of semi-wild boys to fight wars, Indians and other evils.

Greenville at this time was the center of textile manufacturing in the state if not the world.
The family farm was not able to support such a large number of people. To this day I have no idea of how or why they chose to move to South Carolina but they did. It was one way to put behind them the passing of their first child. A brother that I would never know. He was born and died in 1939.
The duplex on highway 29 maybe 80 is just a vague memory. When I started school we
Had moved. We were coming up in the world. My father bought a used 1939 Chevrolet
4 door sedan black in color and giant back seat were I rode like a king. Not long after the we bought a 4 room house . The people that lived there were pigs..it took weeks to clean and make the house livable. The house was a big square box two bedrooms kitchen and a living room/parlor
Yep that right no indoor bathroom.......