Playing hide-and-seek on the local college’s campus

A kids-eye view of semi-public space

Not an image of the Wesleyan trees — but they felt like this. Image by Evgeni Tcherkasski from Pixabay

I grew up in a family tied to the local college, West Virginia Wesleyan College. My grandfather had been admissions director there. My mother and 3 of her 4 siblings went there. My mother worked there as well. And from where I lived on Florida Street, it was the closest big green space for play.