Here are a few early photos from school and Revere Rd in late 1958-59. I was ten or eleven years old.
This picture was Christmas Eve. I was dressed to go to church for midnight mass at Church of Our Savior Episcopal Church. I was probably singing in the choir that night. We were allowed to open one present before going to church. I remember opening the box that had the cross that I am wearing in the picture. It had my name engraved on the back. I thought that was so cool. I am trying on a new bathrobe in this picture as well. I think I protested that the one gift rule didn’t apply if it was something I was supposed to open for the purpose of wearing to church. I remember wearing that cross outside my cassock.
You can see the tea cart under the window with the crocheted cloth my mother made from nylon tire cord. The mahogany beams in the ceiling were part of the house renovations completed for Mom & Pop’s twenty-fifth anniversary and sister Molly’s wedding.
The pictures of me as a model in a high chair that changed into a rocker and small desk has always brought back one of my first memories. Mom and Dad had a friend that had invented this chair that could convert without taking the child out. I remember having had just about enough of being juggled as they changed the positions and began to cry. The picture of me reaching out was when they held my green frog, that would stick it’s tongue out when squeezed always brought a belly laugh out of me. To get me to stop crying, they held that frog out in front of me and I reached for it. My sister always says that I was a “pretty baby”. I maintained blond hair until about four years old – the curls lasted until late in life.
