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# Turning 50
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/3868/
- Published: 2006-02-06T16:41:47.000Z
- Updated: 2006-02-06T16:41:47.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: History, #wpChunk

[Terry Teachout turns 50 and reflects a bit](http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/archives20060205.shtml?ref=thedailyeudemon.com#104876):

> Here's how old I am:

> Ӣ [This](http://www.sikeston.net/downtownpostcards.htm?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) is what my home town looked like fifty years ago.  
> Ӣ My maternal grandmother canned fruit and stored it in her root cellar.  
> Ӣ My mother was baptized in a river.  
> Ӣ My father witnessed a lynching.  
> Ӣ Milk used to be delivered to my family's back door.  
> Ӣ We used to leave that door unlocked.  
> Ӣ When I was a boy, I read Li'l Abner and Pogo in the paper every Sunday. . .  
> Ӣ I used to send telegrams.  
> Ӣ I saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. . .  
> Ӣ I watched the first moon landing on TV.  
> Ӣ I cast my first presidential ballot in 1976\. (Don't ask.)  
> Ӣ I saw Star Wars and Animal House when they were new. . .