Did you have a childhood hideout? Tell about it.

Yes, I did. Our neighbor west and diagonal across the street was at least 150 it seemed to us kids, I don’t really know how old he was, however he had a pig pen he let us use. it had a roof so shaded us pretty well. It was filthy, we worked so hard to clean it up. Can’t remember ever working so hard. My Uncle Earl Porter was the shop teacher at South Sevier High School and he had made Joy and me a cupboard, it was really quite large so we never used it at home, so we hauled it over and other odds and ends. Our first meeting we had a party where Gloria Staples brought an apple pie. They were very poor, their father had died of a heart attack and left ten children. She was really embarrassed about that pie. It was the only thing her mother could come up with. Now I think “what a sweet lady to go to all that trouble.”