BRANDON â A good memory comes in handy when youâre older than 90 and have decided to write a book about your life.
âI have a photographic memory,â said Sanford Rouse, 92, of Neshobe House. âI can remember things back to when I was 5 years old.â
Which means that while Rouse remembers trudging a mile to a one-room schoolhouse in East Shoreham in 40 below zero temperatures, he also remembers when President Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted the New Deal to get the United States out of the Great Depression.
âWe also had, back then, they called it the poor house. Nowadays they call it the food shelf,â Rouse said. âWe had commodities like canned peaches, cans of peanut butter, for everybody. At the time the Depression was going on, those were years we canât forget. It lives in your heart forever.â