BOYHOOD SUMMERS

There's been snow on the ground since just after Xmas at my new home in upstate NY, reminding me of my boyhood winters when snow would arrive sometime in later November or early December and stick around until Spring. Which reminded me of all the seasons of my boyhood, especially the summers I spent down the Jersey shore in Belmar. Here I am with a few of the Lally clan in the late 1940s.

Back row my mom, Aunt Peggy and Aunt Rose; middle row my cousins Rod and Rosemary and sister Joan; bottom row me, my sister Irene and cousins Kathi and Micki.