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FAMILY OUTINGS

kids. Mom would take sandwiches, raw vegetables, chips and
lemonade for all of us to picnic. We’d spend the day.

Outside of Washington on the Virginia side of the Potomac
was the Great Falls Park. It was a forested area with a dry
channel, and picnic area. As I grew older I liked going there
more and more. By the time I was 8 and 9 I could climb out
onto the rocks and cliffs that over looked the falls. Before that
I’d walk the paths and channels play catch and have a picnic
with my folks.
As I got older I was able to see the river split into two paths at
the top of the falls. Each path took one side around a large
crested rocky island. I called them the Maryland path and the
Virginia path, because the Potomac separates the two states.

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