Word: levison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Lincoln Levison moved to Greenfield, Ill. two summers ago, the town (pop. 1,006) took to him at once. He opened a small sawmill and customers came flocking. Soon he was able to move into a trim white house with his wife and two little daughters. To wife Marjorie, Greenfield seemed "just like heaven...
Then fall came and the trouble started. The town discovered that the Levisons were not sending seven-year-old Carolyn to school. Instead, Mrs. Levison was teaching her at home. The Levisons explained that they were Seventh-Day Adventists and that as far as they could see, their religion was strict on the matter. Said Mrs. Levison, quoting an Adventist text: "Parents are the best teachers of their children until they are eight to ten. Small children should be left free as lambs to run out of doors." As a former college student, Mrs. Levison thought she was fully qualified...