[TheForge] Poly-ticks, vanishing freedoms

[Stephen McGehee]

Afternoon y'all.
In 1928, in an America giddy with the speculations of the decade, the
Commencement Address given to the Eureka Springs, Ark. senior class was
entitled "Our vanishing Civil Liberties..." by the attorney F. O. Butt.
Back in the old days [1966] when the Men were Men and the Goats were
afraid, we would cross the state line to Golden, Mo. to the tire store
where discrete inquiry to one of the owner's sons would cause him to
drive up the road apiece to the old tire store where they kept the tires
and M-80's or cherry bombs, probably  smuggled in from Oklahoma   It was
so fun to hold one in my hand as long as possible, then toss it down the
spillway of a 275' high corps dam, because the reverberations down the
valley were the loudest.  Said owners have a bit more visible presence
thereabouts these days...

Stephen McGehee, Publisher
Irony - the sketchbook of an apprentice blacksmith
P.O. Box 925
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