Family Tree by Signe Wilkinson for October 18, 2024

They all wanted to go anyway…

We were never alone. We older siblings "baby"sat the younger ones.

Oops!

Famous last words.

growing up my parents had a little place by the beach in Charlestown RI but we lived in Providence about 40 miles away…from the time i was about 7 my folks started leaving me down there all summer alone – now i say alone but my buddy Keith lived next door and i slept in his boy scout tent every summer night from like 1960 to 70, and his mother was there all summer too, but also no phone…nearest pay phone was a mile away at Browning’s Store…had outhouse and pump for water, but after living in city all winter long, it was Heaven

Sometimes the younger ones get left home alone…