Backyard adventure of a Levittown five-year old
By LESLIE
SANDS BELL
Class of
1968
In 1955
most of the homes on Carnation
Road in Levittown
had backyard fences made from cyclone fencing, white pickets or logs. They were
always between three and four feet high, making it easy to converse over them
with the neighbors on either side and behind.
One
summer day I was playing in our backyard when I heard a dog yelping in pain. I stood
on the lower rung of our log fence and saw the neighbor diagonally behind us beating
a puppy as she dangled it from its collar. I was five-years old and my sense of outrage
was enormous. I yelled out “You put that dog down you mean lady.” She stopped,
and in a shocked voice asked me, “WHAT did you say?!’’ I repeated myself and
added, “You’re mean and when you die I’m not sending you an “I'm Sorry card.”
She
dropped the puppy and began to run toward the corner where the fences of four backyards
met, and straight for me. I took off and blew into the kitchen of our Cape Cod where I literally hid behind my mother’s skirt
as she was stirring something on the stove. The neighbor entered our kitchen
without knocking about five seconds later.
The
neighbor was livid about my behavior and the puppy’s who had chewed her brand new
couch- something that you had to save up and pay for in cash in those days. My mother
understood her plight, but defended my sense of injustice. The puppy found a new
home and although I wasn’t reprimanded, my mother told me to get an adult to intervene
in the future.
____
From Jim
Urban, class of 1961
Frank,
welcome back. These are some of the things I have noticed about your blog through
the years: 1. The writing is, generally, excellent. 2. There are very few
spelling or grammatical errors in the posts. 3. There are very few posters who
have a negative remembrance of growing up in Levittown;
almost all remember their childhood with exceptional fondness. I'm not certain
that this is common. 4. There is an unusual commonality evident in the memories
of those of us who grew up in Levittown. How
can it be that such a diverse group of people, from such diverse backgrounds,
socio-economic strata, religions, goals and experiences, all feel similarly
about their childhood years? Must have been a very special place indeed.
3 comments:
Well said, Jim.
This is a response to Leslie Sands Bells comment!! (there was no comment link on Leslies story) I hope that neighbor died a painful and slow death at an early age and is burning in HELL!!! And that you Leslie will be granted your next life in doggie heaven. You have no idea how animal abuse gets my blood boiling!! Even though that happened a half century ago, I still feel the pain just hearing that old story. BE KIND TO ANIMALS OR BURN IN HELL!!
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