Tell us about your hometown.

[yellowdogintexas]

7. My home town is a square mile township in the

rich agricultural part of Western Kentucky. Population 200. There is a fair amount of working farmland within that square mile; Wheat, corn, soybeans and tobacco are the crops.

We did not get street lights until 1957. When we were kids we roamed freely from one friend's house to another. All the old ladies out on their front porches kept our parents advised of our location! It was a great place to be a kid!

There were a number of old homes with lots of shade, a couple of general stores, a post office and one gas station. There was also a very definite racial divide in terms of where folks lived.

The stores and gas station are all gone; folks have to drive from 10 to 20 miles for any shopping.

There is one high school, a junior high and two large elementary schools in the county. Most of the towns are too small to support a school so everybody rides the bus. The county itself has a population of around 11,000.

Nashville is an hour away and Louisville is 3 hours.

I am definitely a country girl in the big city!!