I picked up a book at the Library this week and read it today, "Twelve Mighty Orphans" by Jim Dent. It was a true story about an orphanage that was fortunate enough to get a great football coach and turn around the lives of many young boys. It was back in the Depression Days...
I have always enjoyed sport stories and movies...One of my favorite movies was called, "Hoosiers" It really is a little nothing movie staring Gene Hackman and it was about basketball in a very small Indiana town, set in the 50's. I read a review once about the movie and they said, 'When they showed the basketball game in that small gym in Indiana, I could smell the popcorn." I remember going to Basketball Games in the 60's and the gym always did smell like popcorn....My grand kids will never know that simple kind of life I had back then....
On any summer day, my Sisters and I could be roaming the hills for hours and I am sure Mama never worried that someone might have hurt us or we might be harmed in any way. When My Kids were teens and pre teens I would let them go off in the neighborhood and have them check in every hour. Now just a few years later, you are scared to let the kids play in front of the house by themselves...Oh how times have changed and I long for simpler times....
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I read about an orphanage and it was told by several of the folks that had been there. I think it would have been about the same era. All the spokesman had good things to say about growing up at this place. It was a private orphanage and did not have a lot of money to operate it..but all felt it was a good place.
Simpler times and more trusting times. There was no need for locked doors years ago. We are definitely losing ground here.
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