My visit to my home town of Elmford NY

On my Road Trip to NY I was able to visit my hometown of Elmsford NY.  I drove down the Saw Mill Parkway and got off just before Taxter Road where I grew up.  My daughter Elizabeth was with me and I got to reminisce about my childhood growing up on Taxter Road.  There were a lot of memories here, most I did have a chance to tell her.  The property was very overgrown with trees, brush & debris, the home had long since burnt down as did the garage.  The driveway was over grown with grass and debris and almost unrecognizable to me except for a partial mailbox strapped to a tree alongside the entrance.  I was able to park in the remains of the driveway now littered with broken glass & twigs.  I took pictures of the areas I remember, the well and wading pool that my dad had fashioned,  the creek were my brothers and I played and caught crayfish in the Garden area and the large rocks that I had spent many a summer day laying upon reading or gazing at the clouds.  So many memories encompassing my growing up years from age 5 or 6 - my early 20's.  After that I drove downtown and was able to find my High School, still in use I remember those hallways well, my eight grade English class, Art class thru my high school years and the memories of my graduation class standing on those center steps for our final photo.  Now a Jr. High School rested alongside of the old building... 

On the back wall of the football field the class of 2013 had written "Lucky 13! - Class of 2013 - Making our own Luck!"  It was nice to see my old alma mater so vibrant! You Go Class of 2013!

 

 

Alexander Hamilton High School - The Girls Entrance, Boys Entrance and middle Entrance -

 I Love the Saying that graces the beautiful Architectural center, "KNOWLEDGE IS THAT INDEED THAT WHICH NEXT TO VIRTUE TRULY AND ESSENSIALLY RAISES ONE MAN ABOVE ANOTHER"

 

After leaving the school area we drove down the long hill that I used to walk up back into town then drove to White Plains NY were Elizabeth and I stopped to eat at Tommy's Deli Café on Broadway.  I did not recognize any of the streets at all on my way there...I felt lost.  Thank goodness for my GPS. I dropped Elizabeth off at the train station were she caught a train into NYC & I filled up my gas tank and headed back to Putnam Valley to my Brothers house.  I did enjoy the drive back and was almost drawn to get off the parkway  in Pleasantville NY to see the Reader's Digest building where I had once worked and Hawthorne NY to see where my Grandparents had lived. 

My recent trip to NY brought back Memories of my growing up years

The past few weeks have flown by so fast.  I took a Road Trip back to NY to visit my Brother's Eddie and Bobby.  While there I took my daughter Elizabeth to Elmsford NY to see the place I grew up in.  It was very overgrown with trees, bushes and debris.  I reminisced a lot drawing from my memory images from the past of how it looked "back then". 

The remnants of an old mailbox for The Taxter Road Property.



The old water well was down here along with a stone wading pool built my Dad Edward G Hess Sr.,  Beyond the rocks there flowed a small stream that my brothers and I used to catch crayfish in.

 In this photo you can see the overgrown driveway leading to the house upon the hill.  Eddie, Bobby and I used to sleigh ride down this driveway all the way to the street in the winter time.  to the Left the tree with the fallen limb resting on it stood on the right back corner of our garage.  we used to climb it back then and sit on the roof of the garage gazing up at the clouds in the sky as they floated by.  The debris covers up the portion of the driveway leading to our house.  you can view more about my vacation this June 3013 here.