THE GANG IS ALL HERE, in the 50's

THE GANG IS ALL HERE! BACK IN THE 1950's
from left to right Cousin Ruby, Cousin Susie, Sister N. Jean, Cousin Anna, (me) Norman (the cool one) Cousin Billy.. then in the middle from left Brother Bob, Brother Coyd(the little blond boy in the middle) and then Cousin Sheila (peeping over the tailgate.)
The Gang Was All There (for the most part, but then there were always little ones in the house) I don't know where we were going (in our imaginations) We found all kinds of things to play back then. Most of the time if we weren't working, we were playing outside. There were always a lot of us at our house, or at Granny's. This was taken at Richpatch, when we were at Granny's. We found all kinds of things to play back then, and there were enough of us to play anything. Sometimes ball games, sometimes we played hide and seek, or cowboys and Indians. When we got older we sometimes caught snakes, just for the fun of it. Or we would one climb a tree and a few cut it down to see if the one in the tree could make it to the safe side before it hit the ground. Sometimes we would throw rocks at hornets nest so they would chase us. At times we would swing from grapevines. Back then you HAD TO DO YOUR CHORES BEFORE YOU PLAYED ANYTHING! It is some great memories, and we never thought of the danger, or possible danger of many of the "games" we played. We were just enjoying being kids, and outside in the countryside, there was always something we could "get into".