When my brother and I were kids, not a hundred years ago, we had such freedom to be curious about what lies beyond the rise in the hillside. We lived "downtown" Clemson with undisturbed woodlands in our backyard where our Uncle Paul took us squirrel and rabbit hunting sometimes. Mom grew a garden there and had flowers blooming all around the house. We played with the six other kids in the neighborhood making towns and houses by sweeping up the pine needles into walls for our structures. Chairs were rocks; sticks created other structures. We played barefoot and had to extract stickers and briars, etc. Life was good and fun. And to top off summer there was the Clemson A&M College Farm and Home Week on Bowman Field. Oh, my! There was a huge tent on the edge of Hwy 93 in front of the Holtzendorf YMCA building (which held Clemson's only swimming pool). The field was littered with tractors and other big farming equipment. Families came from all over the state to see what innovations were available to make farming and farm living more efficient and easier for the family or business operation. We were allowed to walk from home through town to the field to see all the exhibits not totally unlike a state fair. There were animals in pens that were being fed by new methods of presenting the food; chickens being hatched by new kinds of incubators (I can almost smell the fuzzy baby chicks and feel their softness now); new canning and freezing information for the homemaker; newly developed varieties of okra seeds that produced pods without spiny barbs! We collected brochures and samples and balloons and went home and had a "show" of our own in the "pine needle village" in the backyard.
Oh, my. One of the things that has triggered these memories is a web site www.tigerpregameshow.blogspot.com which includes historic photographs of old Clemson. It is fun to go to that site and look at the sidebar on the right of the screen. You can look at a series of pictures each day with regard to former times in Clemson. Granted, many of them have to do with sports, but there are some really fun photos of the town as it was long ago.
Thanks for indulging my reminiscence!
Sara
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