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Tommy’s Pond (‘Memory Lane’ Contest, Day 11)

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Tommy's Pond #2, Metuchen, New Jersey - Nature photography - Quora

Patty and I went out to sit by Tommy’s Pond this morning. Memories galore! All four seasons’ worth. Here we skated, sledded, fished, and tried to catch frogs. It was a big part of my childhood. I caught a newt here once–wow! I can’t decide which season was my favorite, at Tommy’s Pond. Just watching the little pumpkinseed sunfish guarding their nests was a treat.

Post your memories here for our Memory Lane Contest–only three more days to go, and then we’ll have the winner. All viewers, even first-timers, are welcome: enter as often as you like. You could sin a book or a T-shirt.

‘Memory Lane’ Contest, Day 2

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Okay! We’re off to a good start.

Each day, I’ll post a place for you to post your entries. That way they’ll all be in the same place.

Do You Remember? - Milk vending machine spotted in London ...

Let me get us started today–with milk machines. Remember them? The ones in our town had wooden platforms which sometimes fell to pieces. Golden opportunity! If you dug into the dirt where the platform used to be, you could find fabulous numbers of quarters that people dropped and that fell through the cracks in the platform. What a bonanza!

But that’s enough from me. Any readers’ memories today? Here’s the place to share them.

By Request, ‘Sweet Hour of Prayer’

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Requested by Erlene, Sweet Hour of Prayer–and how it brings back to me my mother and my grandma. They’d sing this hymn while doing their chores.

And I do enjoy the scenery rounded up by S.E. Samonte.

Bonus Hymn, ‘Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho’

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There comes a point in the weekend where I just can’t post any more nooze. So how about another hymn instead?

Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho–would you believe we used to sing this in public school? Sang it with a good will, too!

‘On This Day Earth Shall Ring’

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Would you believe we used to sing this in a public school? It came back to me today–On This Day Earth Shall Ring, sung by the choir at Kings College, Cambridge.

(Yes, I know it’s a Christmas hymn…)

‘The Church in the Wildwood’

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We used to have a little tiny church, as humble as can be, stationed on the street corner, a few blocks away. Gone now, of course. Gotta build them condos!

The Church in the Wildwood is one of my wife’s favorite hymns: I wish we had a church like that.

‘Oh, Sinner Man’

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No, I’m not going to do nooze now. But it’s been a while since we’ve heard this hymn: Oh, Sinner Man, a Caribbean hymn transported to the cold seas of Scotland.

Once upon a time, if you can believe it, we sang this in a public school. And the sky did not fall.

Memory Lane: Family Sundays

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Kevin the Bold – Kreigh's Comics

After Sunday school, after Sunday dinner, the various households of our family would visit with each other. That would be five families who lived close enough together to make regular visits easy.

This essay was going to be a Memory Lane for the Sunday color comics. The families got different Sunday papers, so my childhood appetite for comics had much to feed on.

Mandrake the Magician. Flash Gordon. Prince Valiant. (Yeah, I liked the series best.) And my favorite, Kevin the Bold. Anybody out there remember him? Globe-trotting Irish adventurer in the days of Henry VIII. When Kevin wound up in Japan, that blew me away. He also made it to the Roanoke Colony and the Philippines.

*Sigh* Where is everybody? Either died or moved far, far away. No more Sunday get-togethers: nobody left to get together with. Kevin the Bold himself never made it past 1968.

We keep on trucking, fueled only by God’s promises. And by sweet memories.

In Quest of the Whim-Wham Whistling Shark

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I’m amazed I found this! It’s one of Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies, vintage 1939: Fresh Fish, it’s called.

This was the kind of harmless stuff that passed for kids’ TV in the 1950s. Although I must admit that for as far back as I can remember, I’ve had a fear of sharks. Could early exposure to this cartoon have caused that?

The diving bell was cutting-edge oceanographic technology back then. Today I doubt there’s anybody under 60 who would know what a diving bell was.

Whim-wham Whistling Shark–don’t laugh! Nobody knew what was down there, in 1939. Coulda been anything! Remember the bathysphere? The bathyscaphe? I think the world half-expected them to find Atlantis.

Keep looking. It’s gotta be somewhere.

‘Jesus Loves Me’

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How about a little back to basics? Jesus Loves Me was the first hymn I ever learned–in between visits to that wonderful sand-box they had in Sunday school kindergarten. And I used to ride my bike along a woodland path, just like the one in this video. Oh, I miss that!

Sung by Rosemary Siemens.