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My Dad was an instrumental presence during the early days of Natural Gas
Pipeline Construction in the United States. He worked for a prominent pipeline company
headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As I began grade school it was somewhat traumatic
for me, in that I would begin each new school year... and shortly we would need to move.
I learned to "make friends fast", because I knew I would not be in a particular school for
a long period of time. By the time I entered College, I had experienced an
education unlike any average teen. I wish (hindsight, and that cliche') I had kept a
journal; I have no idea exactly how many schools I attended. There are some which
I remember with great fondness; in Kingman, Arizona, I entered my Freshman
year of High School. I had my "sweet sixteen" in Sonora, Texas. I reached my
monumental 18th birthday in Lawrence, Kansas. I lived in Northern Arizona one Summer,
(good thing -- no school!) in Tuba City and Kayenta - my neighbors and friends were
the Navajo and Hopi Indians.
I still have 2 rugs which were woven especially for my
Mother by a Navajo woman. Their future will be in a Navajo Museum in Arizona.
When I was "carted off" to an all female College, Culture Shock is an understatement.
No boys?!?! Uh, OK! The "being in one place" did not set well...
and living in a Dormitory under the ever watchful eye of a House Mother! Say WHAT? OMG!
By the time I completed the "finishing school" phase in my life, my Dad had
"made his fortune" and he and Mother returned to our "homeplace" in Tupelo, Mississippi.
Following my marriage, I lived in Southern California for 7 years, then Dallas, Texas for
two years, and THEN closer to home... Memphis, Tennessee.
My parents have "changed addresses" -- (you can always reach either at
"Our Father Who Art in Heaven...") ...but TUPELO
will always be the old homeplace. My family lives in (and near)
Port Gibson,
Mississippi [hover link] . You know the one... Grant stated that the town was "too beautiful to burn."
That's home now!
I have put together some
images of the "pipeline". Many individuals take for granted their access to the natural
energy resources required in their daily lives. It did not (and still) become available by magic. There
have been many lives lost and sacrifices made by these hard-working, dedicated men who
contintue to bring this resource into our daily lives.
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