Before my Mom passed, I had a pretty long conversation with her about her history. There was a lot of course I didn't know, mostly details. She heard about a teaching position in south Georgia in about 1943, somehow, and took it, got on a bus with a suitcase of everything she had and arrived in this small town where the home ec teacher had just passed. She said much of the town had assembled at midnight to meet her. She stayed in a boarding house with other females, she said.
She had been working as a chemist at Oak Ridge doing analysis of "rain water" for Compound X. She said they used wet methods and then got in a spectrophotometer and the analysis now was boring and she wanted another job. She then moved after a few years to Baldwin, GA to teach and later met my father there when he returned from the war.
No internet obviously, somehow folks still got "news" about stuff and how to secure lodging in small towns.
