5 minute freewrite prompt today is a great day in your history
This is my post for #freewriters Sunday prompt * today is a great day in your history* hosted by @mariannewest
This prompt has me thinking back over my life and the things that happened. Some of it was historic some only meant something to me. The first great thing that I remember is when we got electricity. I lived at the end of a 5-mile road that was all beach sand. In the early 60's they paved a road to my home, it was named A1A. When they finished, the power company laid out power poles to erect and run power to us. But overnight someone stole all of the poles to build a dock so our power was delayed.
While in school, I think in 3rd grade, they told us that President Kennedy had been killed. Also in school, I remember having air-raid drills, we had to sit under our desks with our hands over our heads. I do not know what good that would do, but we had to do it.
I remember being vaccinated in school, anyone my age has a scar on their left arm from it. I think we also got other shots in school. I remember being told that I had to wear shoes to school.
Getting a color TV was so exciting.
Having an antenna with one person standing by the tv, another at the window, and one turning the antenna so you knew when the channel came into focus.
I remember when black and white kids first went to school together, I remember that all of the white kids did not want black kids in their school and the same went for the black kids. It would have been nice if one of us would have stood up and said today is a great day in your history.
Neither of us knew what a great day in history that was to become. There was a lot of fighting between the boys, the girls were more verbal. But once we gave each other a chance we found that the only difference was the color of our skin.
I remember the beginning and end of the Vietnam "war". Then there was Watergate, I was so pissed because that was all I could watch on TV they had it on all 3 channels.
I remember our first telephone, getting what was called a radar range (microwave oven)both in the late '60s, and much later getting a VCR, computer, laptop, cell phone, DVD player, etc.
Now I have a vacuum that runs around by itself and a little box that I can ask anything and it will tell me.
photo is mine
You and I have witnessed many changed in our lifetimes! I don't remember a time when we didn't have electricity or a telephone, but I do remember party lines. We didn't have potable water in our water pipes,so we hauled drinking water from a state park a mile away. There were no black children in our area,so integration did not affect us personally. There were some Native American kids, but I don't recall them ever being ostracized in any way. Maybe I just was oblivious to it. I don't know. My parents always taught us that skin color didn't matter; character is what matters. I still feel that way.
I think that no matter where we live we have many similarities with others who were raised in the 60s and 70s. We had a sulfur well so I grew up drinking it, most people do not care for it, they say it smells like rotten eggs. When we moved from Florida to Missouri we had party lines, we did not have them in Florida, I think two long rings meant someone was calling us. I thought it was so crazy to pick up the phone and hear someone else talking on it and you had to wait for them to finish their conversation before you could make a call.
!BEER