Question Of The Month: Arnold Senior Center

Each month during the school year, the Severna Park Voice poses a question to a fifth-grade class at a local school. This month, while students are out for summer vacation, we asked the visitors at the Arnold Senior Center: How did you spend your childhood summers?

I grew up on a farm. We didn’t have vacation. Our vacation meant we got away from school.

Mary Brown

I’m from Connecticut and went to school up there, so in the summers, we would go to the beach. I spent part of my life in the Navy, and that’s what brought me to Annapolis.

Lorraine Cogam

I spent my summers with grandparents and relatives, and we went to the shore with them.

Jim Learner

I used to go to camp all the time. My mom was a nurse and she believed it was good for children to go to camp. She was the camp nurse, and that paid for my brother and me to go to camp. When I had my own children, they didn’t go to camp until they were almost too old, but they loved it.

Esther Geil

I grew up in Baltimore County. We spent summers playing childhood games. Also, we would go down and get on a boat and go to Betterton and Tolchester.

Carolyn McCave

We stayed home. Sometimes we would go to the Catskills.

Jeannette McCormack

I was raised in a children’s home, and I spent my summers working on a farm. Once in a while, the head man would take us on a truck to go swimming, and that was a treat for us.

Paul Rittenhouse

When I had kids in Utah, we went to Zion National Park in the summertime. It’s a really beautiful park and they looked forward to that.

Amelia Sorensen

I spent my summers working.

Ellen Stevens

I lived on a farm, so we didn’t have vacation. Once or twice, our family all got together and packed a picnic basket for a family reunion dinner. On the Fourth of July, we would go into town to see a parade.

Virginia Yargus