I didn’t get to spend any time reading about Alice’s adventures today. But I did go through some old photos in hopes to find one of my dad and I reading together. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any pictures of us together when I was little. This photo is dated 1977 and I think that would have been around the time Dad read “Wonderland” to me.
In 1977 the best 4th of July parade in the history of parades went right in front of our house and we gathered candy by the handfuls from the gutter. We ate watermelon on the picnic table behind the house and grew a few rows of corn behind the garage. My parents took all of the kids out back for a summer photo shoot by the cornstalks. I found similar photos of my older brother Mark, and my cousins Jacob and Noah who alway spent the 4th with us. Sparklers and lightening bugs, kick the can and running through the sprinkler, that’s what summers on Hamilton Avenue were made of.
