They Sang an Old Song in Church Today
The choir sang an old song in church today. I have played and sung it many times. But today, the memories came back in a flood. More than 60 years ago now, I was probably about five or six years old. We had recently started going to the little Friends Church in Sebring, Ohio, on old Quaker Hill. In the late 1940s, the church was formed and they had repurposed an old one-room schoolhouse that my Grandfather Heacock had attended when he was a boy in the first decade of the 20th century. Dad found the Lord under the ministry of Rev. William Atchison. Dad loved music. He had a Gibson guitar that he probably bought in the '40s, but I suppose he always wanted to learn to play the piano. So, he took the plunge and purchased a brand new Wurlitzer Spinet. I don't know the hows and whys, and as far as I know he never took a piano lesson from anyone. But he did teach himself using the Pointer System. It was mostly about playing the melody of a tune with the right hand and playing a bass n...
