I was talking with Your Aunt Mary Jane today and she remembered when I ran back to our house on 4th of July with her on my shoulders as a man with a shot gun was shooting at us.
Here is the Story
It was the 4th of July and Mary Jane said she was 5 or 6 so I would have been about 17 and it was about 1958. Some of our relatives and friends from Philadelphia would come to our house on 4th of July. The 4th of July was a lot of fun when we were growing up. There were competitions in the morning for the kids. Cutest baby, fattest baby, best decorated bicycle, and other competition, and the winners would get to be in our towns, big parade. There were more competitions and baseball games latter in the day, a big party at our house, all day and night, and of course the fireworks just as it got dark. Many things were going on at the same time all day and all night. One of the things we did was to take the kids from Philly into the woods and have adventures. This particular day we were at the ledges and little cliffs that were made when they built the NJ Turnpike, which ran right through the forest we lived next to, about a mile in. The NJ Turnpike was completed on November 30, 1951, when I was 10 years old.
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