A Pea Coat Goes Home
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A Pea Coat Goes Home - Les Rolston
A Pea Coat Goes Home
Les Rolston
A Pea Coat Goes Home
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This book would not have been possible without the love and support of my wife, Elaine Ann Savini.
A Pea Coat
Goes Home
When I was six years-old I discovered a big wooden box in our family’s attic. My fourteen year-old sister opened it for me—it was a treasure trove. The 2 ½’ by 5’ chest was full of faded photos, yellowing letters and full-length fur coats. Confounded but curious I picked through the smaller mementos and trinkets from the 1930s and 40s and breathed the stale hot air of the attic perfumed with the aroma of cedar. I found a pair of sailors’ pants with so many buttons on the front that I thought of the iconic cartoon character Popeye. In a few years I would wear them to high school.
At the bottom of the chest was a dark-blue heavy coat. Even at that tender age, I was moved by it. Its silk lining was pristine; it bore no stains or tears. It felt good in my hands. I wanted it. That night at dinner, I worked up the courage to ask my dad if I could have it and with a degree of sweetness mixed with disinterest he said, Sure, when you’re old enough.
He didn’t tell me what it was.
Old enough
became ninth grade and the coat kept me warm as I turned up its collar on my mile long trek to high school on windy February mornings. My friends envied and wanted my coat. It was so unusually stylish that no one would dare steal it because its