Summer Watercolor 1962

Siobhán Barry-Bratcher
3 min readJul 2, 2020
(Photo from New York City Parks Photo Archive)

For parochial school students, the first official day of summer comes somewhere around the eighteenth day of June when we leave the classroom shortly before noon clutching the report cards that say we’ve been promoted to the next grade. We start our vacation by mercilessly taunting our public school counterparts who, by order of the Board of Education of the City of New York, remain behind their desks in sweltering classrooms until the very last…

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Siobhán Barry-Bratcher

Life-long Writer / Bluegrass Guitar Picker / Hippie Grandma diving head first into ‘Act Three’ all on one cup of coffee a day