The Road Less Traveled

Growing up in the 1950’s on a small rural farm in Rutherford County, NC. I was raised in a home with Four rooms and a path. I can still remember when the back porch turned into a bathroom. We had to climb through the window until the doorway was cut. Memories jumble together of summers and winters, snow and storms; of barn lofts on a hot day and a cool creek for wading; of family, pets, barnyard cats, chickens and cows; of Friday, the hired hand and my following behind him and the mule; and of grandparents with numerous aunts uncles and cousins. Dad was a war vet, the oldest of 14 raised on farm land that had been in the family since before the Revolutionary War. Mom was a city girl whose family worked in the mills.