Nana Biography

I told you what I hadn’t told you. And you’re trying to put it all in a row.

Well, sort of in a row, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be exactly chronological. It’s nice to have the chronology because you see how things fell out.

Yes, but I haven’t spoken chronologically.

To a large state, you have, you’ve done that. But are there other areas that you think you might have left out?

Well, I was thinking about my sort of grammar, school, education, and things like that, I don’t think I’ve talked about that very much. And it’s sort of came to me now that both of my grandchildren are starting school. I realize that I’ve never been to a public school.

Never.

No, just the University of Kentucky, but always as a child in Kentucky, I should say I went to kindergarten in public school once semester I think and then we moved to Kentucky and I went to a private school classroom. It was the same teacher that taught my stepfather and there were boys and girls in it and they were grades, I think two through nine or 10, something like that. And there were maybe 30 kids in the whole room, and she handled everybody. She was very strict. She had a little hammer made out of wood. She used to discipline the boys by hitting them on the top of the head when they were bad, and the girls on the knuckles. I was just terrified of her.

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