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Junk Drawer Evenings |
| Section: LIFE / FAMILY |
| Author: John Elvin |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 686 Words, 3,892 Characters |
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In the days before the dawn of the modern age, before television fixed us with its mesmerizing eye, evenings were different. My father was off fighting World War II in those days, so I looked to my grandfather for clues about how to spend the after-dark, before-bed hours. My grandfather's habit, when dinner was done, was to sit in the darkening living room in a big, overstuffed chair by the floor-model radio, listening to Edward R. Murrow and other reporters of the day. He would li...
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...r some screws salvaged from a discarded bed frame. Tuck them away in an empty drawer and soon will appear a small garden of junk. And, maybe, one of these days, a grandkid will look up from the mesmerizing eye of the television or the games to be played on the home computer and say: "Would you like me to make you an invention?" Go to it, young friend, you're carrying on a proud tradition. vbcrlf
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