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One Sunday, during the Civil War, when father was a little boy attending church on the Common in Pittsfield, Vermont, he was profoundly amused by the ingenuity and precision timing of the ladies as they tilted and maneuvered their huge hoop skirts into the narrow pews. During the service, a terrifying thunder storm suddenly arose; the meeting house was struck by lightning, and for a brief second, a dazzling flash of light and fire seemed to encircle and play around the women's skirts. The electric current melted the solder which held the ladies' wire hoops together!
The serenity of the service vanished as the screaming, embarrassed ladies scrambled from the pews and ran from the church, their hoops dropping, rolling, and clattering as they fled.
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