title: The Moon and Me: More Memories and Reflections
author: Dean Charles Dickinson
description: <b>Dean C. Dickinson</b> had an active and varied career with the U.S. Air Force: first as a communications officer, and later as a supervisory electronics engineer. He graduated from George Washington University in 1958 with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree. In 1975 he earned a Master of Science degree in Systems Management from the University of Southern California. He retired in 1990 and resides with his wife in Canastota, New York. After a lifetime of serious reading; he published his first book, <i>Corn and Me</i>, and <i>Other Lingering Impressions</i>, in 2007. This is his second book. Mr. Dickinson has five children, twelve grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.
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  For my beloved children, Miles, Zora, and Lena Johnson. To know
  where you are going, you must understand from whence we came.
  To my husband, Glenn, you are my wind.
  
  You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again
  that you didn’t know
  —William Wilberforce
  
  PART ONE
  Bell Plantation, Charles City, Virginia,
  1850
  
  CHAPTER 1
  The Bell Plantation
  Mama believed that the full moon was the most fertile night of the
  month, and that everything she touched held God’s power. Each full moon,
  she dragged me out in the middle of the nigh