Here’s something you don’t see every day
I was going through some old boxes and found my mother’s poll tax receipts from 1958-1966. The poll tax was outlawed in 1966.
I also found:
– a picture painted by my great-great-great aunt in 1938 for my mother
– a whole bunch of my riflery and archery targets and patches and medals from camp
– a newspaper article about a relative who went to jail
– a letter from my big brother to me when I went to camp (I’m still waiting for that Astroworld trip I was promised…)
– a bunch of dim pictures of unidentifiable landscape (pitched)
– letters from my grandfather to his parents while he was a cadet at West Point
– my mother’s confirmation certificate
– all my report cards and standardized test results
I started this project to toss out trash, but it’s taking me hours to go through the boxes. All the letters written to and from camp for the 7 years I went there, for example – fascinating. I got 2 letters in 1981, one from my great-aunt and one from my mom, about how fascinating the royal wedding was between Charles and Diana. My mom recorded it for me. On betamax. I still have it somewhere.
September 24th, 2002 at 2:07 pm
You got your trip to the astrodome/astroworld(summer 1981). You got to see Nolan Ryan pitch his 5th nohitter against the Los Angeles Dodgers and Fernando Valenzuela. It was a 1-0 game. You got to ride the rides. I got to pay the bills. Lucky me.
Those drugs they gave you for the pain must be placing a lot of torque on your memory cells.
Incidently it seems to me that we are getting really close to a habitat on the lake!
ttfn!
September 24th, 2002 at 2:45 pm
remember that one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. 😉