From: Nancegar at aol.com <Nancegar>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 10:18:51 EDT

In a message dated 10/2/03 8:19:53 PM, druthgo at sonic.net writes:

<< (Is any reader out there old enough to recall playing in empty lots? Is there anyone out there who knows what an empty lot is?) >>

You betcha! (Except we called them "vacant" lots -- we must've been listening to the grownups.) I played in several. I remember especially then one in

Crestwood, NY, where my friends and I found a huge brush pile around and in which we pretended to be Mowgli, Gray Brother, and the other characters in Kipling's Jungle Books. (Too bad some of the brush turned out to be fresh poison sumac!) And then there was the one in Providence, R. I, in which my best friend Susie and I fought the Korean War, taking hill after hill...

Nancy Garden



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