Sunnymead Redux: a Half Century Ago
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After fire destroyed Sunnymead last fall, my sister Laural sent me copies of a number of family photographs that were taken there. Here is one of them, shot almost exactly a half century ago. I am standing in front of the living room fireplace in my first and only suit: graduation, 8th grade, Warrenton Elementary School, 1961.
The recent past.