{"id":1090,"date":"2008-08-15T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2008-08-14T22:30:32","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T02:30:32","slug":"mountain-moving-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2008\/08\/15\/mountain-moving-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain moving day"},"content":{"rendered":"

This day in history (well, my story).<\/p>\n

In 1964, this was the day my family moved from Holden, West Virginia to Richmond, VA. For a while it looked like it was going to be Louisville, KY but something changed. I am now sorry it was not Louisville which seems to me a far better place though I have never been there.<\/p>\n

Immediate damage – I had to miss my last ever Little League baseball game. I think this was intentional because I volunteered to be catcher in the previous game (spare you that story) and my mother was pissed that the manager let me do it. <\/p>\n

That night I missed my favorite DJ Dick Biondi<\/a> of WLS in Chicago was doing a dance party\/sock hop kind of thing in Logan which was 4 miles away. I listened to his show every night on my Hitachi transistor radio that could suck in flamethrower AM stations from almost half of the country under my pillow. <\/p>\n

Long term consequences – Small coal country town kid hits the ‘big’ city full of right wing backward cracker bigots. I never liked Richmond and still don’t. Too bad most of my remaining family still lives there. <\/p>\n

I always wondered what would have happened if we had never left WVa. I probably would not be in California and probably a lawyer or a judge or in politics there. I do know if we had moved to Kentucky I would not have been a jockey. <\/p>\n

Sorry I have nothing to look at. Seems I lost my video and photo powers. Here’s my grade school<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Hope that gets your day off to a rip-roaring start.<\/p>\n

Julia the Spy<\/p>\n

:cake: <\/p>\n

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