Similarly I did not live through the FDR years and first recall Truman, but
DO recall my great aunt Sally Bedinger Hopkins in Alabama (but of Virginian
ancestry) complain about Daylight Savings Time. The argument, as I recall,
went that since city folk were now getting up an hour earlier, farmers had
to get up an hour earlier (before sunup) to get their milk to market in
time, and thereby lost an hour of sleep. Why did they not just knock off an
hour earlier? Because during summer there was so much work to be done that
one had to work as long as there was light. At any rate, that's the
argument as I remember it. There was no confusion that FDR had legislated
an hour more sunshine, but rather an hour less sleep.

St. George Tucker Ranson

At 08:20 AM 8/22/2004, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> >This is funny; though I lived all of the FDR years, I did not =
>know/remember that...............    hahaha
>
>I take it you didn't grow up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin where it's
>bemoaned annually ever since....and the first election *I* remember was
>Eisenhower's, sitting there at Gram's - cross-legged on the floor in
>front of the TV (!) while the snow kept piling halfway up the windows and
>the mailman came in & sat with me for a while to watch it & get out of
>the blizzard and Gram made us hot chocolate.  (No I didn't....the
>schoolhouse was only two (2) 'blocks' away and it only took me a couple
>of minutes rain, snow, sleet, or hail but it was closed that day anyway
>due to the snow.)
>
>PS Paul, did anyone have a URL to a map of the old parishes?  I have one
>somewhere, (an actual map) that is,  for the ones in Virginia which I
>could scan and send by attachment, but it would necessitate me cleaning
>my room in order to find it - and the scanner <iii_iiii>
>
>For you I would do it though, in thanks for all the help you've given me.
>Cynthia in Wales, Wisconsin
>
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