I Remember: Life in the Early 50's in Rural Arkansas

by Tony Lamb

My Memories of growing up in Arkansas, moving to Michigan and going back to Arkansas on several vacations and picking cotton, chopping cotton, the outhouse, no running water almost no electricity. I Remember the good old days when times were much simpler and people were more honest and everyone worked hard, or they didn't eat, when a Dollar had value and a man’s word was as good as a contract. You have NOT worked a day unless you been bent over picking cotton, dragging a 30 lb. sack of cotton up and down cotton rows with your hands bleeding for $2.00 a day from sun up until sun down. Those were the days. If you wanted a drink of water you went to the pump and hand pumped the pump until water started running, that was your running water. And if you wanted to use the bathroom (they didn't even have that term back then) you went to the out-house at the back of the garden and went into a small little building with a wood bench seat with a hole cut into it and that is where you plopped you butt to do your business and it didn't matter if it was 10 degrees and 4 AM you still got dressed and had to walk in the dark to the out house to take care of your business. The good ole days. I remember those times because I lived them.

64 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 27, 2014