HOW IT WAS

Before 9/11...<p> Before President's sex lives were talked about on the 6 pm news...<p> Before the sexual and feminist revolutions...<p> Way way before Political Correctness...<p>There was a simpler time...a time when large families were not unusual...a time when everyone read The Smith Family cartoon in the Boston Globe (and other newspapers across the country).<p> In the mid 1950s Elsie Jennings writer and George Smith cartoonist were collaborating on a book with her stories and his drawings. Elsie's stories like George's cartoons found humor in the everyday occurrences of large-family life. Elsie became quite ill and died before finishing the project but her daughter Mary has kept the material for over 50 years.<ul> <li>If you remember Duck and Cover <li>Nuns with yardsticks used as weapons on knuckles and knees <li>If you grew up Catholic in the 1950s or early 1960s or if you know someone who did <li>If you've seen the play Late Nite Catechism and it brought you back to your own parochial school days and you laughed so hard you had a stomachache for days...</ul> If you remember <i>How It Was</i>...