Gone with the Wind remembered
I suppose most of you have long forgotten "Gone With The Wind," the 1930s book that shook the world. I suppose a lot of people haven't even read it or seen the movie.
Anyway, it's a book that "knocked your socks off" back then and stayed with me. My poor husband was sick in bed with some aches and pains, I didn't give the wifely attention a sick husband should have. I just read the book!
The other day a friend gave me a paperback entitled "The Road to Tara." It was about the life of Margaret Mitchell who wrote "Gone With The Wind." Her life was most interesting, and almost as complicated as Scarlett's (heroine of the book).
Be careful what you read, it is liable to have a life time influence on you.
Sometime ago I read an article about volcanoes in the Salina paper. Mount Etna in Italy had erupted a few months ago. I saw a volcano in Hawaii — very hot with lava boiling and bubbling. Pretty impressive.
On a trip to Italy we visited the famous Mount Vesuvius. It was quiet then, but history tells us how it once covered a whole city.
When the Hannaford Title office was upstairs above the Marion County Record, we felt the building sway a little, so Kansas could have an earthquake — who knows what is boiling and bubbling down in the middle of our earth!
When I was a child, I was told I could dig a hole and come out in China. I think if I had started then, I would still be digging. I did finally get there, but I took the easy way. I flew!
— NORMA HANNAFORD
