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Tennessee, Auburn or Georgia and ate a meal before coming home. It was always a treat.
Mother never went to any of my football games, or any other football games. She thought it was much too brutal and should be abolished.
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As noted, our school was a vocational
agricultural school, so I took two years of agriculture and shop work. There was always a project and one year I raised a pig, and another year, chickens. When my chickens were about ready to harvest, someone broke into the pen and stole them. I never caught the culprit. Daddy did a lot of wood-working and the school had a shop. A gasoline-powered motor turned a long spindle which had big belts that could be attached to whatever machine you wished to use. I’ve enjoyed woodworking and gardening ever since. In fact, every job back then required extra work to figure how to do it. I learned lots of tricks watching people solve problems, and solving them myself. Maybe that’s why I’m a fair handyman now.
I was also in the FFA, the Future Farm- ers of America. One time we joined FFA mem- bers from Guin at Bon Secure on Mobile Bay. One of their boys had jumped in the water and drowned. This was a sobering occasion as we’d
