Home Schooling Before There Was Home Schooling Seems quaint now, but my family lived in a part of rural America in the early 1950s where one-room school houses weren’t still common but they still existed. Bell Victory, situated on the outskirts of Springfield, Missouri, was one of the remaining ones. It stood on a stone…
Letters from the Old Hyde Place
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Letters From the Old Hyde Place Uncle Lon was what everyone called a tough old bird. As I was told as a child, he was made up in some high percentage of Cherokee Indian. I have no idea whether that is true either in terms of percentage or tribe, but I do genuinely believe it…
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Letters From the Old Hyde Place You may have heard this said before by other sons, but my mom, Lena Mae Renfro, was the best woman God ever put on this earth. I can only imagine what was going through her head when at the age of 45 she told her doctor she was pregnant.…
