The last time you visited your childhood home/neighborhood?

[Harker]

45. My parents sold the house I first lived in when I was 9.

My Uncle Ray built it.

My father had worked at Sears in Chicago for 18 years, and it was 1968.

Several years later my mom and I took a trip back to visit friends and relatives, and we stopped to visit the man who had bought the house. He was a Huron, and had done wonders with the place! There was a teepee out by the peach tree, and he had placed a stone atop every post on the split rail fence that enclosed the yard. The real triumph was the huge elongated boulder he had dropped over the septic field to fall in whichever position nature wanted.

The carpets inside were covered by handwoven rugs, and he proudly introduced us to his family, depicted in framed photos on the walls.

Good memories, TD.