Stories

As a child, it’s hard to imagine a world outside your own experience. As it was for many children, it was easy to see myself as the beginning, especially without many physical reminders of the past.

‘I remember watching a TV show as a kid and one of the characters said… ‘We’re traveling to our grandmothers house and they live way out in the boonies’. I didn’t know that word it was a funny word. I asked my parents what it meant and they told me we lived in the boonies. Behind our house was a field, undeveloped land, and that was a great place to go. It could be anything you want.’  -Kevin Forbes

It was where we’d hunt for tadpoles in the spring and build tree forts in the summer—a wild place where real life blended with childhood make-believe.