Good Old Days Magazine

Growing Up in a Rural Community

My parents stopped the car abruptly in our lane and stared at my brother and me. They had left the two of us, ages 8 and 12, clear instructions to stay in the house after dark and go to bed on time. But there we were, standing in the road at midnight, holding tools. Ethan Mann looked up from the fence he was mending.

“We were gone all evening, and my cows broke out. Your kids spent the evening herding them off the road and trying to block them in,” he said.

A lot of people might think we hadBaptist, etc.) who rejected television and movies, and considered all card games a form of gambling.

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