David English:  

Life Well Hello there! Thanks for dropping by and saying "hi"! If you're looking here then we probably grew up together, and I want you to know that I think of all the people I grew up with in Riverdale as sort of a long lost family of mine. We spent so many years together growing up in the same classes, for me I was the new kid who "only" started with you all in 3rd or 4th grade! (I can't remember anymore). The years growing up in the late sixties and through the 70's was such an ideal time.. and both the triumphs and tradgedy's of teenage life in "Rumordale" tug at my heart with such a sentimental journey... back to a much simpler time.. of cruising main, and who were you going to dance with at the sadie-hawkins dance. Of trying to be the coolest, of trying to find out exactly who you were, with all your friends to keep you from straying too far and calling you on it when you did! Of Mr Ghroeling singing "White Christmas" every year and just knocking it dead! Party's at "Tin Can Alley" or "The River".. and everybody knowing where that was. Working the summer "chopping weeds out of the cotton at Borba's Ranch or picking Tomato's for the Kercher's. Baseball games in the summer afternoons at Memorial Park with the dent in the ground in front of the Oak tree being home plate... and closing right field when there wasn't enough players. Taking the dare to cross the pipe across the ditch when it was full of water. That rediculous "Barnyard Scramble" at the rodeo during spring festival... do they still do that? And those incredible water baloon fights during each Haloween.. when you didn't dare venture downtown without "ammo" (your own water baloons or baggies filled with water). Those were EPIC battles! Don't ever forget that time we shared! I am married now. I live in Minneapolis, I have a job. My son is moved out, 26... going to college. It makes me think about ...Expand for more