Pa Joad Said It

Pa (rising) "You wouldn't think jus' reachin' up an' pickin'd get you in the back."

I was picking some apples - just a few "gallons":

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2026/09/lamest-invention-of-2026.html

but afterwards I was reminded of this from The Grapes Of Wrath:

I hadn't been working as hard as the Joads but I'm older than Russell Simpson (Pa Joad) was in 1940 per the wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Simpson_(actor)

Old Russ would have been 60 (or maybe 63 ?) and I'm 71  :)

Charley Grapewin (Grampa Joad) was my age in 1940:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_Grapewin

But Grampa Joad didn't make it as far as the peach orchards :(

BTW a contemporary Tom Joad would just have to substitute Socialists for Reds:

source: https://clip.cafe/the-grapes-of-wrath-1940/every-time-ya-turn-around/

It's a different name but it allows our contemporary government story tellers to sell fear with their fiction :(

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm