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hypatia42Lots of people don't get me. I've kinda gotten used to this feeling. It is perhaps reasonable to think that some merely lack the proper perspective from which to understand. And so we begin a long time ago.
It could be argued that this story starts before the United States were in existence. I don't know the history of my brain that well. I could probably find out but I'm writing now. I can add later if it is meritorious.
In early October, round about the 7th I think, in the year 1913 a small baby girl was born to a fairly affluent family in Belzoni, Mississippi. As girl children were protected and sheltered, being the weaker sex, her story isn't really something to think about until she gets older. Born to a family that is a mix of Scots-Irish and Cherkoee, she was as willful a child as she was allowed to be by very strict Southern parents. Her Daddy apparently told her she had to quit riding horses because it wasn't lady-like. That kind of strict. She grew up and went to a ladies college because her family was well off enough to pay for one. While there she decided she was going to play basketball. Obviously lady-like because she could do it at school right? This woman pioneered college basketball, in the South. They played other schools. When was this? Late 1920's?
She was my grandmother.
It could be argued that this story starts before the United States were in existence. I don't know the history of my brain that well. I could probably find out but I'm writing now. I can add later if it is meritorious.
In early October, round about the 7th I think, in the year 1913 a small baby girl was born to a fairly affluent family in Belzoni, Mississippi. As girl children were protected and sheltered, being the weaker sex, her story isn't really something to think about until she gets older. Born to a family that is a mix of Scots-Irish and Cherkoee, she was as willful a child as she was allowed to be by very strict Southern parents. Her Daddy apparently told her she had to quit riding horses because it wasn't lady-like. That kind of strict. She grew up and went to a ladies college because her family was well off enough to pay for one. While there she decided she was going to play basketball. Obviously lady-like because she could do it at school right? This woman pioneered college basketball, in the South. They played other schools. When was this? Late 1920's?
She was my grandmother.