Generation Gap
"What's the biggest state?" my friend Michelle asked. I was helping her with her homework so we could go outside. "Alaska," I told her. "No!" Cut in her grandmother (the neighborhood kids all called her Grandma Shirley). "Texas is the biggest state. If I learned anything in geography, it was that! My teacher drilled that into me. Texas, then California, then Montana." Trying to be polite to the elderly woman I greatly respected, I said, "Texas is the biggest in the mainland United States, but Alaska is a lot bigger." "That can't be!" Grandma Shirley looked concerned and alarmed. "I got straight A's in geography, and if I know anything, Texas is the biggest!" This precious woman (who is now in Heaven) had attended school in the 1920's, and at that time, Texas was the largest state. Alaska di...