family legends
What are some of yours? One of ours involves the 1959 epic, Ben Hur . You know the story. It involves the life of the fictional Judah Ben Hur, a Prince of the Jews in 1st century Judea. On February 15, 1960, my father, who was then a teacher, took his students to see the movie. My very pregnant mother accompanied him. My parents joked that the baby should be born in the theater, and if it were a boy they'd name him Ben Hur. Of course, it didn't happen. I was born 3 days later. But the movie was magnificent, wasn't it? Here's the chariot race: