My love of candy started with a white chocolate Easter Bunny. Between that and the jelly beans I was hooked. But I couldn't indulge as I wished until I got my own income stream to spend as I chose. That changed with my paper route.

Whalom Park in Lunenburg, Massachusetts existed from 1893 to 2000. My memories extend back to the early 1970's, when it was modern enough to fit in with any midway style carnival attraction one might find at fairs and festivals today.

I attended college in the late 1980's at Boston University in the U.S. Politically, it was quite a raucous era. However, it seemed that my generation with some few exceptions was uninterested in anything besides making money. On campus, a handful of student activists battled the administration on several fronts.

Remember when that album came out? Yes, I am talking about those vinyl discs with the hole punched in the middle. They were played on turntables that revolved in one direction and the only reason you might try to reverse it was to see if you could hear satanic messages as they played backwards. But that is a different story.