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...Grandma (who we were, of course, going to visit) lives in a Condo Complex. Most Condo Complexes (and there are many) have similar features: swimming pools, shuffleboard courts, tennis courts, clubhouses, lots of old people, and lots of completely identical buildings to house the old people. They also generally have imposing walls and gates staffed by crack walkie-talkie-toting octogenarian security forces. Grandma assures me this is to provide protection from the hordes of degenerate muggers and rapists who swarm around South Florida after the sun sets...
...Kentucky hollers, the Midwestern river valleys and Amish Pennsylvania probably did not think of quilting as an art but rather as a skill and source of pride. They certainly did not think dealers and collectors would someday gather at auction to pay tens of thousands of dollars for Grandma's handiwork. America's Glorious Quilts, edited by Dennis Duke and Deborah Harding (Macmillan; 320 pages; $75), assembles photographs of some of the finest examples of this varied craft. Country and patriotic themes dominate the 19th century pieces, although their combinations of colors and designs are hardly naive. The surprises...
...Take Alberta Freeman, 55, who turns up at a recycling trailer in a New Orleans supermarket parking lot with 30-gal. garbage bags bulging with aluminum cans. Freeman, her daughter, a daughter-in-law and eleven grandchildren collaborate in can picking. Last year the family cleared some $500, which Grandma naturally spent on the grandchildren...
Columbia's first opponent that year was Joe Restic's Crimson. The Lions visited Cambridge and stunned Harvard, 21-19. It was the last time Columbia ever beat Harvard and Restic's only career loss to the Lions. But on that day, grandma's cowbell echoed throughout Soldiers Field. It was a great day to be a Columbia...
Columbia would lose the final three games of 1978, and win only one of 10 games the following year. In my uncle's final game against Brown--which the Lions lost by 17 points--grandma kept ringing her cowbell after the game ended. I kept on cheering the players into the locker room. The ride back home from Providence, however, was still long...