Wednesday Muse August 10, 2016 The Neighborhood Gang When I came across this photo it made me remember our Neighborhood Gang. If you were a kid in the late 60's, 70's and 80's you'd recognized this photo immediately, different aged kids, male and female just hanging out in the summer time. There were no computers, no video games, just endless sunshine, warmth and fun that lasted a little over two months before returning to school. Growing up in NM there were a lot of kids whose Dads were in the Military but also other professions, one Dad owned a Kinney's Shoes. Another was a Preacher, yet somehow all these kids from different walks of life got along and played together for hours at a time and had to be called in with veiled threats at nightfall by our parents. If our parents weren't so insistent we probably would have slept outside too, after Dinner of course. A typical Summer day in my NM neighborhood consisted of either a swimming lesson or
