Volume 4, Issue 4 (July - September 2020)

The Bell Telephone cinderella piece reminded me that my mother was a switchboard telephone operator for Bell Telephone here in Grand Rapids, Michigan during the 60s and 70s. Does anyone remember Rowan & Martin's Laugh In comedy sketch program on US TV during the late 60s and early 70s? Using the technology of the time my mother had a job similar to Ernestine, the character played by Lily Tomlin, where she sits at a switchboard and connects calls. One of her classic lines was "one ringy dingy... two ringy dingy". Hopefully my mother was not as obnoxious as Ernestine.

Anyway, great little piece and thank you for the reminder.