On a certain day parents would meet at the school and swap used books or sell them for a small price. Mama had 9 kids, and I don't know how she made it...a widow with one posthumous child. We didn't all go to school at the time, so that helped. We were so happy when our school started furnishing the books. Not as happy as our parents, though. Tennessee's come a long way, Baby..Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:27:18 -0700 Roses <roses4831@msn.com> writes: > > My older sister talked about buying the school books. Mom and Dad > moved to Louisiana for a while, and she said they furnished the > school books so she benefited from that. Then, they moved back to > Arkansas and you had to buy your own school books. They couldn't > afford to buy the books so my other sister was the loser. The > second sister has always said that she didn't get the education that > the older one got. I think she only went to like 4th or 5th grade. > She didn't like to write letters, said her spelling wasn't that > good. > Emma > > > > > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > > Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 00:12:44 -0500 > > From: askgranny@juno.com > > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Making sorghum molasses.... > > > > When Mom was a teenager the young people would go to a nearby town > and > > pick strawberries big time. They stayed in a barracks type house > and > > stayed till the berries were gone. Money was used to buy their > school > > clothes and books...Yes, back then you had to buy school > books...Bad part > > of the good old days......Jeannie T > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ____________________________________________________________ Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210