We were kids in a classroom with a rolling television cart, and for a few minutes nobody talked, nobody chewed gum, and nobody wanted to be anywhere else.
The Day the Whole Country Looked Up |
We were kids in a classroom with a rolling television cart, and for a few minutes nobody talked, nobody chewed gum, and nobody wanted to be anywhere else. |
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They rolled the television in on a cart with squeaky wheels, and that alone was enough to make it a good day. |
A television in a classroom in those years was an event. It came from a closet down the hall, wheeled by the same custodian who fixed the radiators, and it had rabbit ears wrapped in aluminum foil because the reception in a brick building was never any good. The picture rolled. Somebody had to hold the antenna at an angle and stand very still, which was a job every boy in the room wanted. |
I was young enough to be more excited about missing arithmetic than about the moon. That changed fast. |
The teacher did not give a speech. She just said, quietly, that we were going to watch something we would remember for the rest of our lives, and then she sat down at her own desk instead of standing at the front. That was the part that got my attention. Teachers did not sit |
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