MEACHAM LANE MEMOIRS/Reflections On A South Carolina Christmas Morning
December 25, 2001 134 Clearview Drive, Columbia, South Carolina For my Sons There are very few Christmas’ that I remember during my formative years with Mother and Dad and my brother Ken in Paducah, Kentucky in the 1950's. We lived in a very small house at 1507 Meacham Lane. There was a large elm tree in the front yard by the straight gravel road that, in ensuing years, would yield to asphalt. There was a large limb growing horizontally out of the old tree, and there is no telling how many hours I spent upside down, hanging like a skinny possum in the sun. When we first moved into the house, the wood outhouse still stood, along with a chicken house, with a fenced in area. The chicken house metamorphosed over the years as a shed for storage and even served as a stable for a short time for my horse, Domino. Christmas mostly was not something of which I have fond or enduring memories, which is to say it rates considerably better...