Throwback Thursday

This photograph was taken in the early 1980s. This is me (looking a bit like John Lennon)  with my nephew Mitch and niece Amanda and we are in Forest Park in Noblesville, Indiana. I do not recall who took the photograph but they did a fantastic job! I love how the background is out of focus and shows that we are in motion.

The photograph was taken in the fall. You can see the trees in the background have golden leaves and some of their leaves are on the ground. We are also in jacket vests to ward off the coolness in the air.

A handful of my siblings were also at the park that day. It was fun to take the kids to the park. Forest Park was a park that my siblings and I would visit at least once a year when we were young. The parochial school we attended (grades 1-8) would have an annual school picnic and it was always held at Forest Park in Noblesville (11 miles NE of our hometown and school).

The entire student body of our school would go to the picnic. The annual picnic was held near the end of the school year, usually in May. The average temperature for that time of the year is around 73 degrees. We were allowed to wear shorts...what a treat for kids who had to wear a school uniform...actually the boys at our school did not have a set uniform. The girls had to wear a school uniform of a plaid jumper similar to this:

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When a girl reached the sixth grade, she then wore a plaid skirt similar to this one:

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We girls could not wait to be able to wear a skirt...it made it easier to shorten the skirt by rolling over the waistband and then concealing the roll-over with our green or gold sweater. The nuns were always on the lookout for skirts that were too short. Remember this was the mid to late 1960s and early 1970s and mini skirts were all the rage.

So....being able to wear shorts around your classmates and especially around a boy or boys you may or may not have a crush on was a treat. Plus, shorts made it easier to slide down the curly slide at the park. The line for the curly slide was always so long.

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I haven't thought about those school picnics for many, many years. I remember them as always being so much fun...except for that long line at the curly slide!