Today we will ponder America, a country, even a civilization, that existed long ago where the United States is today, but bore little resemblance to it. It will be like studying cave drawings, or Sargon of Akkad. Pay attention. The is original source material of historical importance.
I was there, in America: Athens, Alabama, at age twelve.
Athens was small and Southern, drowsy in summer, kind of comfortable feeling, not much concerned with the outside world. It left the world alone and the world left it alone. In those days, people in a lot of places figured this was pretty workable.
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I had a BB gun as a kid. I used empty Lucky Strike cigarette packages as targets. The symbol looked like a bullseye.
ReplyDeleteWe actually had battles as the idiots we were. :) My father was blind in one eye from such. :)
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