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People who changed the world.

I used to attend night college classes.

My history class was in a trailer that had coffee machines in back,

ash trays out front, and a bathroom, roughly the size of a luxury coffin.

The room had people from all walks of life.

Men in camouflage caps, stay-at-home mothers, teenagers, middle-ageders, active

military, law and maintenance professionals, and a peace officer, and one Hooters waitress.

And we also had one deaf boy.

The deaf kid was 20-ish, tall, skinny. His mother came to every class with him. Each night,

she wore the same green public's supermarket uniform. Each night, she brought glazed donuts for

the entire class. And each night, she sat beside her son translating the professor's words into sign

language. They were pleasant folks. The kids smiled often, and she spoke with an accent that

sounded like a Georgia Hayfield. At the end of the semester, students were assigned to write essays

about our ancestry, and then read them aloud. And if you've ever had the end of the semester, students were assigned to write essays about our ancestry,

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