RE: Meadow Hill Drive
Living on Meadow Hill Drive during those early years of my youth was nice but it also brought out some mischief in me. There were only 4 houses on that whole road then ... the Hannahs', an older couple lived on the corner next to Highway 80. We lived next door, then the Mitchells (Stan and Mitch) one lot over to our right. At the far end of the road lived the Harrells, (Diane and brother Phillip). The McMurphy's lived across the road from them facing old Highway 80, (Lea Ann and brother Pat). The McMurphy's and Diane were quite a bit older than the rest of us on the street, so Mitch, Stan, Phillip and myself had the road and the properties surrounding the road to ourselves as our playground. Pine Hill Rd, parallel with Meadow Hill, wasn't even there in the early 70's. On Friday and Saturday nights there wasn't much to do unless you went to the "show" (movie theater) and that could get expensive as we only had pocket money from collecting deposit bottles along the road. So we'd get out away from the houses, maybe in the woods or in the field that bordered the road all the way down and tell ghost stories or watch the cars come and go as Meadow Hill Drive had a nickname (and maybe still does?) ... Lovers Lane. The lights from the town of Forest didn't quite reach that far out so it was definitely pitch dark most of the nights. Sometimes we'd let a few cars get parked along the road and we'd start shooting bottle rockets up in the air. Video games and cable tv were still far into the future so we had to be imaginative to entertain ourselves. Sometimes we'd camp out over night and pretend not to think about the "Boggy Creek Monster" that was probably living somewhere in those woods. After the "UFO" sighting in 1973 down in Pascagoula, we'd watch the night sky and every light that moved in the sky just had to be aliens checking out the scene around Forest. I will say that children nowadays are probably a lot smarter than we were but they lack one thing that we had in abundance ... Imagination!
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