Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 20:17:12 -0500
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Steve Smith wrote:

> As to the Civil War, well, my family is from Kansas.  "Moral" is not a
> term that comes to mind.

And one side of my family were slave owners -- large plantation on the
Mississippi and all of that.  The plantation was destroyed, the parents
and most of the family killed, and the remaining children, boys aged 9
and 11, lit out for Texas ahead of the carpetbaggers.  My mother was
born there but grew up in Pittsburgh, a first generation damnyankee.

It gives one an interesting perspective on civil rights.

Elspeth