Reply #43: I lost my Grandpa when I was just 5 but I remember the smell [View All]

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of his pipe as us kids would run up on the porch (in Newport News, VA) on an early-Autumn night after playing hide-and-seek with the big kids and showing him the bugs we caught. Were there still lightning bugs then...during the early Autumn?

But he died and we missed him. But Grandma is still alive today and hers was the neighborhood you described in your elequent and nostalgic piece. No AC and the doors and windows wide open all the way into early Winter, when it became cool enough to fire up the oil furnace.

That seems so long ago now. Sad. We grew up all too soon. The closest we can get now is old reruns of Leave it to Beaver. And don't think for a second my TV isn't tuned to TVLand at 4pm Central, taking a break from Wolf and the Gang.

Would that we could only go back.