government didn t come around and tell us we were poor. she was always finding someone worse off that we would help. i remember that about her, this kindness. she could be firm. in an even smaller town where i was born of 800 people and we lived across a little park from the railroad station. in those days the biggest treat wasn t the ice cream truck coming around. it was the ice wagon. he d give chips of ice. the ice wagon pulled up and my older brother took the lead. we started across the little park. the train came through. a . the did she teach you things as well? yes. with regard to the reading, i don t know that she was aware she was teaching us, but when we were very young my father was traveling around looking for better jobs. she would read to us, get between us in the bed and read a bedtime story. she always held the book and ran her finger under the line she was reading. i don t know whether she was doing that deliberately, and i have no recollection of ever
didn t know that at the time because the government didn t come around and tell us we were poor. and she was always finding someone worse off that we would help, and i would remember that about her. this kindness, and all at the same time, she could be firm like the time in an even smaller town where i was born, 800 people, and we lived across a little park from the railroad station. and in those days, the biggest treat wasn t the ice cream wagon coming around. it was the ice wagon. and kids would get chips of ice from the ice man that was chipping the pieces out to put in the ice boxes along the way. and the ice wagon had pulled up over there, and my brother and i saw it. and he being the older took the lead and we started across the little park. but a train pulled in between us and the ice wagon. and my mother came out on the porch just in time to see us get down and crawl under the train to get to the other side. and we were barely through to the ice wagon when the train p
to really shape your life? spent will, she was of course a major part. i had brother a couple of years older than i am, four in our family two of us in mother and father. and she was probably the kindest human being i have ever known. now, looking back, i know that we, in poverty or pretty close to it all the time but we didn t know that at the time because the devil didn t come around and tell us we were poor. she was always finding someone worse off that we would help. and i remember that about her. a kindness and yet at the same time she could be firm. like the time and even smaller town where was born, tampico, illinois, 800 people, and we lived across a little park from a railroad station. and in those days, the biggest treat wasn t the ice cream wagon coming around, it was the ice wagon. kids will get chips of ice from the iceman chipping pieces out to put in the ice boxes along the way. and the ice wagon pulled up over there and my brother and i saw it and he being the
and what she taught you to do to really shape your life? spent will, she was of course a major part. i had brother a couple of years older than i am, four in our family two of us in mother and father. and she was probably the kindest human being i have ever known. now, looking back, i know that we, in poverty or pretty close to it all the time but we didn t know that at the time because the devil didn t come around and tell us we were poor. she was always finding someone worse off that we would help. and i remember that about her. a kindness and yet at the same time she could be firm. like the time and even smaller town where was born, tampico, illinois, 800 people, and we lived across a little park from a railroad station. and in those days, the biggest treat wasn t the ice cream wagon coming around, it was the ice wagon. kids will get chips of ice from the iceman chipping pieces out to put in the ice boxes along the way. and the ice wagon pulled up over there and my brother
and what she taught you to do to really shape your life? spent will, she was of course a major part. i had brother a couple of years older than i am, four in our family two of us in mother and father. and she was probably the kindest human being i have ever known. now, looking back, i know that we, in poverty or pretty close to it all the time but we didn t know that at the time because the devil didn t come around and tell us we were poor. she was always finding someone worse off that we would help. and i remember that about her. a kindness and yet at the same time she could be firm. like the time and even smaller town where was born, tampico, illinois, 800 people, and we lived across a little park from a railroad station. and in those days, the biggest treat wasn t the ice cream wagon coming around, it was the ice wagon. kids will get chips of ice from the iceman chipping pieces out to put in the ice boxes along the way. and the ice wagon pulled up over there and my brother