EDITOR’S INBOX

Travel back in time with me

To the Editor:

Life is so different now than when I was growing up. We lived in a house in the country, south of Beaverton and north of Coleman. We had 160 acres, a lot of which was trees. No modern conveniences like we have today.

Our indoor plumbing was nonexistent. Our water supply came from a pump by a small barn and up on a hill. Sometimes you had to prime the pump to…