The Sassy Little Truant
& The Formidable Miss Georgia
I’m an attorney now, with lots of responsibility, money, power and a good deal of satisfaction knowing that my life has turned out so well…
But I remember a time when it wasn’t always so easy for me… I remember that fall I spent in a quiet river bottom town in the Appalachian Mountains.
It was a folksy homespun place, the way I remember it, although I certainly didn’t add to the quiet of the place that September. In fact, I likely prevented one teacher, Miss Georgia Sams, from having any peace at all during those first few months… at least until she took me in hand, and taught me a few, very important lessons.
The one room school where she taught seven subjects a day to twelve grades of students was a relic from the past in 1965. A
