My Grandma Newton
- had no automobile;
- had no television;
- had no radio;
- had no telephone;
- had an ice box instead of a refrigerator until 1952;
- had no modern record player;
- didn’t own a book except a Bible;
- didn’t think much of music except hymns;
- didn’t approve of my father’s choice of profession;
- didn’t approve of dancing;
- didn’t approve of alcohol;
- didn’t approve of card playing;
- would play Dominoes with me by the hour;
- never left the house, even to go to church, most of her adult life;
- basically had no life at all;
- was probably well-suited for playing Farmville.
It was not until recently that it ever occurred to me that there was anything unusual about her.
