Fireflies And Stars
Personal memory by Jean Thomas
1936 • Starkville, MS
When I was a child in Mississippi in pre-airconditioning days we would sit outdoors many evenings and catching lightning bugs in jars and there were endless numbers. Now there seem to be fewer and fewer. We would also lie in our backs and look up at what seemed to be endless stars. The stars are still there but I am no longer able to see more than a handful from my house in Pittsburgh.
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