Did You Hear About How Dry It Is In Abilene?

Archie Brown had grown up in a part of Texas that had woods and a bit of swamp and lots of vegetation. When he went to college in Abilene, he found himself in a whole other world. He had chosen to go there because a lot of his friends were going, and it was far enough from home that he would be on his own, away form constant oversight by his parents.

There were lots of things to like about the school and the experience. But when he had been there only a couple of weeks, he told his dad over the phone, “If you want under a tree out here, you have to crawl under it!”