A Story Worth Telling “These are the good old days.”— Long-time Mount Pleasant friend and old soul, Oscar Elliott (1947 2016)Rain was starting to fall. Mom ran around the house in a flurry of activity. “Put the windows down,” she called out to my sisters and me. “Quick.”Summers in the late 1950s were hot. Closing all the windows in the house when it rained typically elevated already high east Texas humidity levels up to Amazon Jungle range.Windows closed, Mom charged out to the clothesline grabbing at the stilldamp clothes hanging on the line. Dad was going out to the ...