July 27, 2004 from Jane Montgomery

I feel like my nightly news letter is extremely boring, and tonight at the supper table Martha came up with an idea. We got to reminiscing about olden times, and Martha was surprised to learn when we got electricity. We started talking about how it was as we were children, and Martha said that we needed to added a footnote to our nightly news letter about something we remember as children. Just a sentence or two, and make it like a trivia question sometimes, and sometimes just a statement. Will try it out and see what all of you think of it. If it doesn't interest you, just don't read it.

One thing that got us to talking about old times was the fact that we didn't have the A/C on, but it was nice. We said as children we just threw the house open, and tried to "catch a breeze" somewhere to cool off.

p.s. When did Malcolm and Jane's families get electricity?

Answer: Malcolm in 1938, and Jane in 1942. Jane just did get it when we did. Pearl Harbor was on December 7, 1941, and we got electricity in January 1942. If we hadn't gotten it then, we would have had to wait until after World War II, because supplies became scarce and everything went for the "war effort".

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