I am thinking back to my age between 5 and 13. I went to the North School (now the police station) our class size was less than 25 students. In 8th grade they took a photo of our class. I wonder where the classmates are today. It would be a joy to get together again. I went to the Wetmore School for one year of high school, they had two courses in machinist and in carpentry where we built a 1/3 scale of a house in the basement, from there I went to Oliver Wolcott Technical School, on 185 South Main Street. We built three houses on Red Mountain Extension.
The only jobs available were delivering newspapers or delivering milk from the Co/operative Dairy on 78 North Elm Street (now Carl’s True Value Hardware).
At the age of 16 we filed for working papers. In the summer we would walk downtown and get a bus at 6 a.m. that would take us to the tobacco fields in Simsbury. We would be paid .50 cents a hour. On Fridays we would be paid in cash. On the way home we would stop for a pint of ice cream for .25 cents. That was a treat coming home after working all week. I was drafted into the Army at age 21, and did basic training in Arkansas, I was shipped overseas where I was trained on how to fire the 105 holster. In Japan there was to many of us in Korea, so they put us through food and baker school in Japan. I was in Japan for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I then went to Korea as a cook till the fall and I was shipped back home and in a couple of months I was discharged.
When I got home I landed a job at Turner & Seymour company where I worked for 45 years and retired. I am now on social security and receive a pension. I am 81 years old and have been married for 57 years, and have two children a girl and a boy. I could tell you more but it may not be interesting reading.
White House disgrace
The White House has hit another new low. Under the guise of cultural diversity the Obama’s have invited a notorious rapper whose lyrics include threats against police and a former president. Press reports reveal that Chicago poet and rapper, Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr., AKA “Common” has been invited by the Obamas for a poetry reading. However, Lynn is highly controversial, in part because his poetry includes threats to shoot police and at least one passage calling for the “burn(ing)” of then-President George W. Bush. This outrage should be immediately cancelled and an apology issued to all Americans in the name of decency.
No confidence
The plunging favorable poll numbers for the Obama administration are in stark contrast to daily record prices of gold, silver and virtually every other commodity. Financial experts have consistently shown they have less and less confidence that the Administration has any clue in what it is doing or any idea for turning the sinking economy around. Failed economic plans, $5 dollars a gallon gasoline, escalating inflation, sinking home values, near bankrupt debt and lectures by the Chinese have done nothing to change the collision course by the Obama administration. The only fix is a conservative sweep in the 2012 elections before disaster strikes.
