The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-07
ARRIVES AT COLLEGE

William James Mcdonald, IS, of
Carolina Beach, has arrived at
St. Anselm's college, Manchester,
N. H., for a course of instruction
lasting approximately five months
prior to his appointment as an
aviation cadet in the Army Air
Forces Flying Training Com
mand.
little about this country. think
the best description would be to
say it's the island of children and
mountains. I have never in my
life seen SO many of either. The
Place is just one mountain on top
Of another. This would be a good
place for a family to spend their
vacation when half of the family
wanted to go to the mountains and
the rest wanted to go to the sea-
shore. They would both be salts
fled here. Kill two birds with one
stone because the mountains rise
right up out CT the sea. One thing
/ can say about Sicily is they love
children. They must. Each family
has a couple dozen of them They
are thicker than ants. You can
hardly get through the town for the
cildren and icy all like candy.
They all line the streets shouting
Tor "Carame]lo,' candy to you.
THE people are very religious.
They have numerous Cathedrals
ard wayside shines. The Cathe-
drals are very beautiful and are
very historic. Some date back to
the early centuries.
Its true what they say, they
really eat the spaghetti over here.
That's the main dish and just about
all at the present. There is a good
bit of fruit as have told you.
Most of it is over now but the
oranges are starting to ripen. The
olives are just about ripe now. 1t
sure is nice to have all this fruit
at arms reach. Well there goes
the chow whistle SO here I go. I
will be back in a little while with
some more abour nothing.
81 started to continue this letter
about four or five times but they
Just wouldn't let me. Everytime
1 picked up the pen something
would turn up. Well it is dark
now, the light is on in the shack
so here I go again. 1 said I was
in the mood for long letter. I
guess you believe it by now if
you aren't asleep by now.
well the next thing on the pro-
gram is our trip to town yester-
day. The whole squad went in to-
gether. We had a good time. 1t
Goes you good to get out like that
once in while. It was the second
| time I have been to town since
have been here. There isn't much
to do in town out it is great re-
| lief to just get out of the woods.
We have been living in the woods
fer over a year and half now.
am almost like wild man
after being away from civilization
SO long. We did have fair meal
of spaghetti and something they
called steak. We had some ice
cream too.
1.-THE kids are sure a mess in
town. They follow you around like
a pet dog or something. We pick
ed up one kid that was o. k. He
didn't ask you for anything but he
didn't refuse anything you offered
him either. He was our dog rob-
Der for the day We took him to
the cafe and he put away a good
meal. He. was hungrier than we
were and that S going some. He
| took us where we could buy a
frying pan. Now all IL, we need. need is
| something to fry. The afternoon
wouldn't have been complete with.
out the down pour so it ralned 1o o:
little while. We got caught in
the ice cream place so we liver, were
forced to have another ile helping
Wen, so much for town. .,s ,,o,,
J Il don't think I bfve told YOU