Wild Violets: The Years of Hope

It was a different world….streams and woods teeming with fish and game….peeping baby chicks in the U.S. mail….reading at night by kerosene lanterns before electricity came….swimming in the cold artesian rivers in the summertime….steamboats on the Mississippi!! It was the same world…. pop music and big bands….dance fads like the Jitterbug….scrimping and saving for college….a little moonshine now and then for one’s friends….avoiding the revenuer….shrimping and crabbing at Mandeville on Lake P...