Elisha Smith was my son’s great grandfather. Chris Clark could not pronounce Elisha’s name when he was little, but he visited one of ’Lisha’s farms every Sunday and took to calling him “Papa Moo.” We all knew and loved Elisha. He was the total farmer. Elisha could hold forth on farming and taught many generations of his family his skills,

You know what I think of technology. A necessary (or perhaps unnecessary) evil. I still prefer to do my writing and thinking with a cheap black ballpoint pen on a yellow legal pad. I spent two and a half hours on the phone with three nice technicians in India two weeks ago.

Did you catch all three seconds of me on television Tuesday night? Remember Warhol said, “In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes?” Well, my three seconds of that was in the wonderful three-hour documentary on PBS about women’s progress in America in the last 50 years.

NANCY GARDELLA

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