Good Old Days Magazine

Spring in Sight

ats were a requirement for women and girls in the Catholic Church when I was growing up in the 1940s and ’50s in Iron River, Mich. It might even have been a sin to go into the church without a hat; I was never quite sure about that. But I knew it was a major offense, and that I had better not forget my hat when I was going to

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