1947 | Washington, D.C.

L to R: Sheila, Eddy, John.

We lived in Washington, D.C. at 3728 Northampton Street, a couple of blocks south of Chevy Chase Circle on the Maryland border.

I remember playing in the front yard a lot. It was raised up from the sidewalk.

There were garden hoses lying around for the Victory Garden during World War II, as described in The Mitchells.

I remember that these hoses got me into trouble if the water from them reached the people passing by on the sidewalk.

That year, 1947, was the first year we all went to Europe. We visited Holland during the summer. Many of my mother's relatives were killed during the Nazi Occupation, because of illegal Resistance activities or because of the lack of food snd good health care.