I was teaching in York County during TMI. On Friday I was feeling nervous as rumors were plentiful and no one was giving any official word. I called my brother in Kansas for moral support, and he responded, “Oh, I heard something about that….” Clearly the news did not carry the same weight halfway across the country!
After school I talked with a friend who had parents living near Chambersburg. I packed in my car, among other things, my sewing machine and typewriter (Maybe they could help me earn a living.), and my friend and I headed to her parents’ home. We were there a couple of days and kept following the news.
I distinctly remember the first time we turned on the news and TMI was not the lead story. We soon drove home and resumed life as we knew it.
Ruth