Robert Taylor:  

When I was a lot younger, there were long summer days in Westfield when I would get up early to go fishing in Gregory's Pond on Woodmere Drive. Sometimes it would rain steady on a windless day, but I was dry and very content beneath that willow tree. Before I would leave, I'd skip a few rocks across to the other side towards the Reynolds house, near the well. In winter, I could not wait to get home from school to go skating on the pond. Laughing, racing, trying out ideas like cycling on ice, building an ice sled with sails and having friends there to share it all. Under a cold and starlit sky, we would go until late into the evening. It was magical. They were a lot of good times, like in the spring, lying there on the grass on the front lawn, looking at the deep blue sky and the puffy white clouds passing slowly over me. I would stare at the tree tops swaying in the breeze and could smell the new flowers in the flower bed. The grass smelled great too. At night we would catch lightning bugs. Late at night I would be lulled into a dream state, listening to the crickets outside my bedroom window. I knew these times and experiences were profoundly good, even back then. And strangely enough, I knew that I would remember them. I loved living in Westfield and deeply miss those days. Wish I had a time machine because I would unplug it when I arrived. I miss those I knew; Doreen Roberts, Bill Tice, Doug Hacket, Susan Reynolds, Brad Garabrant, Maureen Fitzgerald, Eric Branton, Reinhart Struzyna, my cousin Richard Rann and many others. My hope is to find them again or have them find me. Times change though, people move on, neighborhoods morph, lives become filled, new adventures come along and the next thing you know, you are 60ish and full of memories. What happened? Well ..., I'll have to get back to you on that because am still trying to figure that out . . . Although I did not graduate from Westfield Senior High because I had gone to school in Switzerland and then Elizabeth Preparatory, I did attend WSH and had a number of wonderful friends and have always felt that WSH was my school. After high school I then...Expand for more