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Robert: Living on Armour Road, where we lived it was country across the road. The kids that lived there went to a country school. We had the canal on one side, the river on another, we had a pit behind our house that was really deep. So we spent a lot of our time outside, very rarely inside, we didn't have TV and things like that. So I really enjoyed wooded areas, I would go fishing on the canal. I remember when I was a kid getting a little tent and a buddy and I would camp along the canal. We'd go to the Stop Awhile and we'd buy little cans of beans, little cans of spaghetti and heat them on the stove or on the fire. My parents let me do that. We used to go up to Whitaker Mills and there were cesspools there. We would throw rocks on it and watch it go in 'glug, glug, glug' and it would slowly sing. My mom would have…we always told her what we were doing, but I am sure she was petrified, there was water, water everywhere. In the spring the pit behind us would get maybe four feet of water, clear water and we would build rafts and we would go back and of course we would always fall in.

Robert Laing