catherine haight wrote:
When I was 10 (a million years ago) we drove to Florida in the days before
e-ways and had car trouble in GA....we couldn't get anyone to fix the car
until after the lynching...was the entertainment of the week....we were
appalled....that was in 1962.....

That's one of the things that has changed for the better.

When I was a kid there were segregated restrooms and water fountains...
seperate but not hardly equal.

I don't think it's necessarily a Southern thing though. When I visited
cousins up North in the same era many kids gathered rocks in the school
parking lot of the bus ride home, to throw out the school bus windows at
black people or their cars. They thought it was funny.

Sorry to make such a downer poste. I'm going to browse some sailing
websites to cheer up.

DSK