1865 Dark

[Jim Page]

(02-26-2013 07:56 PM)L Verge Wrote:  I find it hard to sleep at her house because it is so dark. I was raised without street lights in the country, but I have lived with them for the past 45 years. Especially today, it's nice to have a little light shining in the darkness.

Laurie, I'm with you on that one! I also grew up in the country without lights, but I like them now!

Once, when the kids were little, Patty and I rented an 1860s cabin from some friends; it was back in the woods in Lusby, Maryland, near the Calvert Cliffs and we were going to spend a few days there. It was so unearthly dark the first night that, at one point, Patty says to me, "Jim, this dang place is giving me the creeps!" I replied, "Me, too. Let's get the heck out of here!"

So, about 9:30pm, we packed up the kids and our stuff and went back home!

In the 1960s, my dad rented a place for the summer that was near an abandoned Army Air Force base in Mississippi. There wasn't another house or anything within a dozen miles of the house we rented in the midst of a pine forest. It was absolutely pitch black at night, and that was the summer I read In Cold Blood! After reading that, I told my mom, "We MUST get out of here!" She told me not to be silly, so I handed her that book and said, "Read this and then let's talk about it."

Three days later we moved to beachfront Biloxi for the rest of the summer!!! Thanks, Mr. Capote!!!

--Jim