There were plenty of kids living in the neighborhood where I grew up. I mostly hung out with Devin and Kathy Wolf and Lori Norris. Among other things we put on plays for our mothers and just dressed up for the fun of it.

Here we may have been playing at being pioneers, or just dressing up. Whenever I look at this photo I have to look twice, thinking each time that the hat the girl on the right has a pipe sticking out the top. We’re standing in Mrs. Wewell‘s back yard, in between two of her many lilac bushes.