Things I Miss

Bookstores

Barbershops

White picket fences

Comic books that were actually intended to be funny

When boys could play football in the street without fear or helmets

When a boy could explore the woods alone with a rifle (probably an old .22)

Old Fashioned service stations with 35 cent per gallon gas and air pumps that were free and actually worked

The Southern Methodist Church

I don’t miss it but it was certainly a better time when all young men went into the service instead of just poor men (and women).

A country too honourable to put women in harm’s way

Smokehouses and tobacco curing barns

Huge pots of Brunswick stew cooked and served outdoors

Old-time windup Southern orators in white suits. (My favourite was Senator Clyde R. Hoey of North Carolina.)

When abortions were done rarely and quietly and only for rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother.

When county courthouses and state buildings were not armed fortresses excluding citizens