Reading some of these post makes me more aware of how fortunate I was to have been reared in reared in my town.
Back then there was a lot of love, religion played a prominent role and the priest in our church helped many a youngster get a college education.
Our priest often spoke of the blight of blacks being taken to America without the benefit of family units as did European immigrants.
Harriet Tubman of the Underground Railroad home sits in this town.
Parents looked out for all the neighborhood kids and gave them a boot if they got out of line.
Threats from foreign evaders was met with planned discipline determination but absence much of the hyperbolic response of today's politic climate
Many of our mothers worked. My mother worked for as long as I can remember. Where I grew up men and women complimented one another
A society cannot thrive if it does not elevate its women. all one has to do is look to some of the Muslim communities.
Romance was truly romance back then. Sex today is equivalent to shaking hands. Our drug of choice back then was cigarettes. We never heard of marijuana, etc
People were grateful and joyous since many had lived through the Depression and WWII.
Have you noticed that people don't whistle anymore. My father constantly whistle a happy tune
Like I said the 1950's were not perfect but have you noticed that our young, those we should always treat as a "protected species" do in today's world lose their innocence and their childhood early on. And yet the irony is that many of our children don't make the leap from child to adult.
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