Photos from: Better Living (DuPont Employee Magazine) -  March-April 1948

Day 22
Listening to: Beethoven Symphony No. 7 – II
Thought for the day:  According to a Facebook post, my animal name is Pandora The Not So Shabby Wombat  (Panny Wom for short).

I survived a job evaluation on Monday. The only critical critique I received concerned the state of my office.  I was given an edict to clean it……… pfffft…. (it’s a historical hoarder’s paradise).  For those who don’t know, I am the resident historian at the DuPont facility in Old Hickory, Tennessee. DuPont has been a part of the landscape since 1918.  Open a cabinet in my work space and you get Dr. Who’d back into time.   That’s exactly what happened to me when I opened cabinet #1 to begin the cleaning edict eradication.  I’m sharing the first thing that derailed me.

The event pictured above involved employees at the DuPont-Old Hickory facility.  THESE ARE MY PEEPS Y’ALL…..well from 1948 anyway!    The first thought that came to my mind was, “that’s not what a hillbilly looks like!  What is wrong with them?”  Then I thought, “What exactly does a hillbilly look like?”  I envision a hillbilly as the birth child of a character from the movie Deliverance and a mullet-wearing redneck (moonshine jug optional).  Oh the times…. they have changed.   The woman who is the focal point looks more like a cosmopolitan Laura Ingalls Wilder than a hillbilly.   My hillbilly perception is changed forever.

More of the magazine article……….