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A little lesson in connecting the past to the present from my mother:
In trying to convey her excitement as a young girl seeing Annie Oakley “live” (the actress who played Annie Oakley- lest you think my mother is much older than she is!!!!):
“Seeing Annie Oakley then was like young girls seeing Brittney Spears today!”
Now there’s a comparison you don’t hear every day.
Seriously though, I am looking forward to hearing more from my Mom about her perceptions of all the “Western” TV and film personalities from her youth and how she related to them as a girl. In a previous post I discussed how my childhood was not immersed in the stories of the “frontier” in the same way that my husband’s childhood was. However, I recently realized I was leaving out The Little House on the Prairie books (not to mention my fanatic devotion to the TV series). I remember taking out each of the books of the series from Sullivan Free library. I can even remember exactly where they were shelved, right next to the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series.
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