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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 10:58:38 CST
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- From: Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
- Subject: Re: English peas
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- > When I read Natalie's account of June days in the 50s in Jackson, I thought
- > of air-conditioning. Children somehow seem immune from the worst effects
- > of that brutal Mississippi heat; I mean, the heat and humidity of those
- > largely un-air-conditioned times is screened out of the nostalgic memories.
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- I didn't mind the heat and humidity. Houses back then had attic fans and
- lots of windows. I still prefer open windows to a/c most of the time --
- except in cars. If given a choice of whether to give up car a/c or house
- a/c, I'd give up house a/c in a minute. Remember not many years ago when
- the governor of Vermont recommended banning all car a/c? I wondered at the
- time how often she had driven in Mississippi summers.
- --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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