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Subject: [Melungeon] Re: Melungeon-D Digest V01 #138
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 15:31:12 EST
Boy, that makes me real happy that I did a lot of my growing up on a really
isolated CO ranch! We locked one closet door, but the rest of the house was
left open to neighbors who might have to take shelter.
We had to take shelter close to the highway in a bad blizzard. The Widow
Smart wasn't home and Dad broke the door down. Christmas Day and her house
was just 1/4 mile from out stuck car and no such well-located house elsewhere
on that long stretch of highway. We walked into the blizzard to get there
and ice formed inside my skirt. My stepmother was lagging behind me and I
got behind her. The new hired hand and my baby brother got pneumonia. It
took me three days to get warm and I was a teenager. Dad made things right
with the Widow Smart.
Roberta Hart Dutton
In a message dated 2/9/01 11:13:43 AM,
writes:
> So try to understand if some property owners don't seem all that
>> hospitable when you park along their fence lines ... they may have good
>> reason to seem concerned.... Us Californians can get grumpy, too!
>>
>> Jeannie
>>
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