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Just a shady area - but to some, it recalls childhood playground 2017-05-14 - Trabue-Russell House, 201 Jamestown Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, Columbiamagazine.com(c) . My sister Jean, whose memory goes back through almost eight decades, recalled the difference in the make-do imagination kids of her era used, and the fabulous roots around trees in our yard at 705 Jamestown Street. On lazy, shady days of summer, the roots were the site of whole new play towns. The original trees in the accompanying story are long gone - four decades have passed. And the yard wasn't as fancy as this one, though it is necessary to point out, just a bit down Jamestown Hill, the road cut was higher and closer to the road, and a favorite prank of kids in the 1930's and 40's was to sail across the road on a grapevine, above or between passing cars. And notable, so far as history we've seen records, no kids were hurt in the dangerous practice. - EW Read More... | Permalink | Comments?

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