tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post370888493712047043..comments2024-03-27T22:25:44.006-05:00Comments on Ennyman's Territory: An Antidote to Being One-DimensionalEd Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12703797864648081829noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146215066182995239.post-58123480983480555362018-03-25T12:51:27.251-05:002018-03-25T12:51:27.251-05:00Well, I couldn't post this without at least do...Well, I couldn't post this without at least doing some of it. The second item in the list --Interview the oldest person in your family. Ask them about their earliest memory and their most brutal/joyous. -- I did today, asking my mom her earliest memory.<br />She first shared how her brother, my Uncle Ted, would take carry milk bottles to school but on several occasions broke them. On one occasion he left the broken glass from one of these broken pint milk bottles on the playground by the swingset. While pushing my mom (she was maybe three years old) she flew off the swing and landed on the broken glass and cut open her shin, which today remain a long scar there.<br /><br />Another early memory, a couple years later. She was in first grade in a one room school house and one of the boys in the class would take her ribbons (she wore pigtails) and one time she got mad and stole his schoolbook and threw it down the toilet... which in those days was an Outhouse.<br /><br />Well, first she got a spanking from her teacher, then her mom and then her dad... and her parents has to buy a new book for the boy. A hard lesson about the downside of taking revenge.<br /><br />Note: This first school teacher later became president of West Virginia University, which later became my brother's alma mater.<br /><br />Up above the schoolhouse, the old turnpike used to go through Highland. This road above the main road had a cutout where teaberries grew. So kids would go up and chew the teaberry leaves.<br /><br />Years later mom, her sister and cousin (a retired pilot from Delta) went back up there to see if there were still teaberries there... and there were.<br /><br />So many stories... all you need to do is ask.Ed Newmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12703797864648081829noreply@blogger.com