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The school also had the only movie projector, and Friday nights Daddy would show movies he’d get from Jasper or Haleyville. We learned to appreciate Shirley Temple, Hop- Along Cassidy, Roy Rogers and of course, High Ho Silver—The Lone Ranger. Twenty years later I saw Roy, Dale Evans and Roy’s horse, Trigger, in person entertaining some sick kids at Bellevue Hospital in New York. They sang and performed horse and rope tricks that really lifted the spirits of the kids.
Formal dancing was prohibited in our Hamilton society. Girls also had to enter the high school from one entrance, boys from another, and we had separate areas in the li- brary. However, we could mix during class and sporting events.
Dad on dancing and morals:
A country boy went to a dance in town. When he got home his parents asked him what impressed him most. “It was the way the women dressed. They were like Dad’s barbed wire fences. It protects the prop- erty but doesn’t obstruct the view.”
And:
