Just below my house is a five-way intersection. I took two photos from a spot just below the intersection, one looking up with my gray house towards the right and the other looking down lower Shepherd Road.
The photo of the intersection reveals little that is new since my days as a child. The empty lot in the foreground once had a building long, long ago, and our former neighbors built a large white fence on the other side of our driveway. Other than that the intersection and Emerson Street remains much the same.
Lower Shepherd Road features many more changes. Going from top down: the snowman is new ;>); the dumpster by the side of a street if for renovating a house from fire damage; the hard to distinguish sign and bell is at the entrance of the firehouse, which was not there when I was a kid; and there is a new Emergency Services building going up where there has been an empty lot for years, though there was old hotel there when I was very small.
You can’t see from this photo one other significant change. Before the new building is a driveway to Meadowbrook, which provides senior housing. Center School was located there when I was a kid, which means between the two photos you can see my entire walk to school. Yes, I’ll be telling my grandkids how I had to walk to school and back every day. I’ll leave out the distance, though.
Five-way intersection with Emerson Street curling around by the gray house.
Looking down lower Shepherd road.
