This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UeB.2ACI/3802.5.1.1 Message Board Post: Hope you folks do not mind me butting in on your remembering your good ole days around the "cotton mill hills" fer I am one too. I started Wooside school in 1943, about the middle of the second big one. I will be 68 years old in a couple more weeks and I can still smell the coal fired furnace in the basement of the "New Building" that fronted on Woodside Ave. on those cold winter mornings. They did not have the yeast rolls back then. I can remember the peanut butter and honey sandwiches with pork n'beans and on Friday we had fish, mashed potates and cole slaw., i belive it was twenty five cents per week for lunch. This was a strain on the family budget in those days I passeds on from Woodside to Parker in 1950, you see in those days the "lint heads" had no junior hi to go into. I graduated from Parker in 1955 and was blessed by the Father above not to go to the mill for work. I remember the first check I drew from the railroad was more for three days after taxes and railro! ad retirement was withheld than my dad made for 48 hours in the mill. i would not take a million for the life I had at Woodside and if i could have just one more Christmas like we had back then it would be the most marvelous thing I could imagen. sorry to have broken in but just had to do it. ed Mullinax [email protected]