Jamie Manix Research Paper

My Grandmother Jamie Manix
Jamie Manix is a spunky 67 year old woman who lives her relaxing retired life in the small town of Lake Mills Wisconsin. She enjoys spending her time with those whom she considers to be her greatest accomplishment, her family. Most people who know Jamie Manix probably are only familiar with who she is right now, a retired woman who spends her days at home. Jamie Manix has had a long life of inter events that have made her into the woman she is today. The year of 1949 was one of many years of fright and panic caused by the Cold War. Nuclear disaster was on the mind of every individual in America. This was not so for parents Otis and Margaret Collins as on February 18, 1949, their third child Jamie Collins was born

There was no such thing as preschool or kindergarten at the time so students began in first grade. Her first year of school was very boring because she was so ahead of her class and had already learned to read from her mother. Throughout grade school Jamie participated in cheerleading and basketball. Though, basketball at the time was more similar to intramurals. The students only learned to play from Phys. Ed. and they weren’t committed to going to every game. Jamie also played on a softball team outside of school. In 1963, when Jamie was in eighth grade, President John F. Kennedy was shot. Word had gone around school that the president had been assassinated but no one actually believed it to be true. After school, Jamie was stepping on the bus to go home when she noticed the bus driver was crying. She now knew that the rumours going around school were true, the president was shot.
When Jamie wasn’t in school, her and her family would make frequent visits to the Smoky Mountains because it was so close to where they lived. They spent most of their time in the Mountains camping and hiking. Jamie, her sister Rebecca, and her brother Dan, would dam up the small river they camped by and swim in it. Many of her fondest memories of her family are the weekends spent camping and hiking in the Smoky Mountains. She especially loved when her father, Otis would cook bacon for breakfast in the mornings and unzip the tent and put the skillet in to wake everyone up with the taunting smell of