Good Old Days Magazine

Swinging and Singing for the fourth of July

Climb, climb up Sunshine Mountain, heavenly breezes blow.

Climb, climb up Sunshine Mountain, faces all aglow.

I sang lustily and proudly as I went back and forth in my swing. It had been such a fine day, starting early when Peggy Shaw and I smashed our paper caps on a perfectly flat rock in the gully. Bang! We had caused our own explosions! “Happy Fourth of July!” we yelled.

Did I know what that meant? Not really. It was 1947, and we lived in Anvil Points, a

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