At Home in Mississippi
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Comment from Annmuma
I am looking forward to reading every chapter in the walk through your Mississippi childhood. Out side of Fanstory, I am working a memoir called Growing up in rural Louisiana. AND already, I see lots of similarities. Keep up the good work. ann
reply by the author on 12-Feb-2024
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I am looking forward to reading every chapter in the walk through your Mississippi childhood. Out side of Fanstory, I am working a memoir called Growing up in rural Louisiana. AND already, I see lots of similarities. Keep up the good work. ann
Comment Written 11-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 12-Feb-2024
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Thank you Ann, You may have already read some of because I written some before I wrote the prologue . I would imagine it would be like Louisiana which is a next state over.
Comment from Ulla
Oh, Beth, this is wonderful. You do have a way with words and I was there when you entered into the world and to the rural life in Mississippi as it were back then. Your children will love to learn all this and I can't wait to follow along. Ulla xcx
reply by the author on 10-Feb-2024
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Oh, Beth, this is wonderful. You do have a way with words and I was there when you entered into the world and to the rural life in Mississippi as it were back then. Your children will love to learn all this and I can't wait to follow along. Ulla xcx
Comment Written 09-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 10-Feb-2024
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Thank you Ulla, I really appreciate the review and comments. I so glad you like it.
Beth
Comment from Wayne Fowler
Very nice post. Nicely written.
My dad and grandparents were 'really' poor in Arkansas. Sometimes grandpa was a sharecropper, but mostly he was a 'day laborer'. Dad told stories of going without shoes and occasionally food when fish weren't bitin'.
Best wishes.
reply by the author on 08-Feb-2024
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Very nice post. Nicely written.
My dad and grandparents were 'really' poor in Arkansas. Sometimes grandpa was a sharecropper, but mostly he was a 'day laborer'. Dad told stories of going without shoes and occasionally food when fish weren't bitin'.
Best wishes.
Comment Written 08-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 08-Feb-2024
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Thank you Wayne. My dad and granddad both did a lot of talking about growing up and what life was like in their day. I always found it facinating.
Beth
Comment from Alexandra Trovato
This is excellent writing! It has good descriptive words and imagery. It's so interesting to me because my mom was born poor too but her dad worked etc. For that reason, I understood your explanations. Thank you for sharing this. I enjoyed reviewing it.
Best wishes!
Alex
reply by the author on 08-Feb-2024
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This is excellent writing! It has good descriptive words and imagery. It's so interesting to me because my mom was born poor too but her dad worked etc. For that reason, I understood your explanations. Thank you for sharing this. I enjoyed reviewing it.
Best wishes!
Alex
Comment Written 08-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 08-Feb-2024
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Thank you Alex. I'm glad you liked it. By today's standards we were poor but we didn't know and not many today can say they don't owe anyone any money.
Beth
Comment from patcelaw
I enjoyed this very much, and it conjures up at me. The memories of having lived in a house much like what's your describing in your story I wish you the very best with all of your writing and I wish you a wonderful day. Patricia.
reply by the author on 08-Feb-2024
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I enjoyed this very much, and it conjures up at me. The memories of having lived in a house much like what's your describing in your story I wish you the very best with all of your writing and I wish you a wonderful day. Patricia.
Comment Written 08-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 08-Feb-2024
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Thank you, Patricia. Living in a house like that wasn't so bad at the time. We wouldn't want to go back to that. I still remember how cold those room were that had no heat.
Beth
Comment from Pam Lonsdale
Above your title: My life going up in the 40s and 50s - make "going" "growing"
I believe "southerner" should be capitalized, as it is a noun here.
You are probably one of few, or perhaps only, people who came into the world in this way. I was born in a hospital in a small town in Indiana, but my father told me stories of his own father having to walk through snow to get the doctor in town for his birth. Wow!
This unique beginning and your surroundings should make for an interesting story, as it is unfamiliar to most of your readers. I suggest you take full advantage of all the unique sensory details that surrounded you when you share your story.
Good luck!
xo
Pam
reply by the author on 08-Feb-2024
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Above your title: My life going up in the 40s and 50s - make "going" "growing"
I believe "southerner" should be capitalized, as it is a noun here.
You are probably one of few, or perhaps only, people who came into the world in this way. I was born in a hospital in a small town in Indiana, but my father told me stories of his own father having to walk through snow to get the doctor in town for his birth. Wow!
This unique beginning and your surroundings should make for an interesting story, as it is unfamiliar to most of your readers. I suggest you take full advantage of all the unique sensory details that surrounded you when you share your story.
Good luck!
xo
Pam
Comment Written 08-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 08-Feb-2024
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Thank you, Pam, I'm glad you pointed out the correction. I debated about the capital on Southerners. I'm a little shocked you find my birth odd because almost everyone was born that way in the forties. The doctor was prefectly willing to make house calls. There as still doctors in Mississippi that would make house calls in the sixties and seventies but most babies were born in hospitals. All my grandchildren were born at home twenty years ago in Tennessee but they did use a midwiife. The last one didn't get there before the baby was born.
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I wonder if births at home lasted longer in the South? I was born in the early 50s and my sisters, born in the 40s, were born in the hospital.
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I doubt it. Our bodies set their on tine as to how long it will take. All my babies were born in the hospital.
Comment from Wendy G
This is an excellent prologue, setting the scene well in time and place, and giving essential information concisely and well. It also speaks of a different set of social values, important ones, which future generations may be challenged by (eg being debt-free, and being content with what one has). Well done.
Wendy
reply by the author on 08-Feb-2024
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This is an excellent prologue, setting the scene well in time and place, and giving essential information concisely and well. It also speaks of a different set of social values, important ones, which future generations may be challenged by (eg being debt-free, and being content with what one has). Well done.
Wendy
Comment Written 08-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 08-Feb-2024
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Thank you Wendy, I really appreciate the review and comments. You are right social vlaues were different. I wise we could all go back to being debt free and content. It is a good feeling.
Comment from Rosemary Everson1
I have always wondered what the South was like. Now I will find out. We also had outdoor toilets and wipes of crunchy paper. It was the olden days and we appreciated everything that we had. I will enjoy your journey!
reply by the author on 08-Feb-2024
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I have always wondered what the South was like. Now I will find out. We also had outdoor toilets and wipes of crunchy paper. It was the olden days and we appreciated everything that we had. I will enjoy your journey!
Comment Written 07-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 08-Feb-2024
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Thank you Rosemary. Four chapter of this book are already in my portfolio. I created the book and prologue to have a place to put them.
Beth
Comment from Jeano
What a nice beginning to your story. It's so well written, it's almost like being there. My parents were married in 1933, lived in Pennsylvania during the depression. My brother was born at home in 1934, I came along in 1940 in a hospital. I'm going to enjoy reading your story as we have a similar timeline.
reply by the author on 08-Feb-2024
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What a nice beginning to your story. It's so well written, it's almost like being there. My parents were married in 1933, lived in Pennsylvania during the depression. My brother was born at home in 1934, I came along in 1940 in a hospital. I'm going to enjoy reading your story as we have a similar timeline.
Comment Written 07-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 08-Feb-2024
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Thank you Jeano. Yes the timeline is similar. I'm about three years older than you. I'm not sure the hospital was completely finished when I was born.
Comment from jim vecchio
Not only is this teaching future generations about a simpler life, but also a time when things were generally more genteel. There were rich and poor, bondmen and free, but there were rules of conduct and responsibility not seen or heard today. Gret writing!
reply by the author on 07-Feb-2024
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Not only is this teaching future generations about a simpler life, but also a time when things were generally more genteel. There were rich and poor, bondmen and free, but there were rules of conduct and responsibility not seen or heard today. Gret writing!
Comment Written 07-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 07-Feb-2024
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Thank you Jim. It seems like a good life and it actually was. People didn't miss the luxury until everyone started having them.
Beth
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I grew up spoiled, with much more than my parents ever had. My mother would always tell me at Christmas getting an orange was a big thing.
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LOL we all heard that srory.
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LOL we all heard that srory.
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I'm still fortunate, though, for all I was able to enjoy growing up.