Sunrise Heights Happenings

What is happening at Sunrise Height? Well what happened for me!
    One day for lunch I picked a plate of spaghetti. As I ate it, I wondered if there is a way to eat it and have good table manners.
    Speaking of manners, when I was eight-years old a lady in town, I’ll name her as many will remember her, had the job of selling tickets in the booth at the theater in Wauneta located on the west side of main street. It was the Crystal Theater. I was young and I didn’t get to go to many movies. The lady was Gladys Colbert and I don’t know how we got acquainted. It was soon after my mother passed away and I’ve always thought, ok of the kindness of the her, she became my friend and I even got to sit in the booth with her. I remember a little opening that was a way for those in the booth to look at the movie. That was a treat for me. Sometime after my mother passed, Mrs. Colbert asked my father if she could take me home with her to the country north of Wauneta. I was given his OK, so I started eagerly planning. At that time my sister, Lois, was in high school in Wauneta, staying all week with our Williams’ grandparents.  My dad and I took her there on Sunday afternoon in his new 1927 Chevy pickup. As soon as we got back home, I wrote a letter to Lois, and I still have all those weekly letters. In one I said about going to Colberts that I could use the manners mama taught me in ‘28. She died in late 1928 so I guess I was taught to say please and thank you and to call her Mrs. Colbert.
 

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