Growing Up in Williamsport, Ohio

​Evening Visitors
 
I wasn’t sure whether I should post this blog or not though it was an entirely innocent event. I don’t want to embarrass anyone. The evening after we shopped, my roommates and I were putting pin curls in our hair and getting ready for bed when we heard a knock on our hotel room door. I think I opened it. David Brown, Harvey Rutherford, Billy Horch and Mike McCafferty walked in as though we had been expecting them. We girls were surprised but figured these boys just wanted to say they had been in some of the girls’ hotel rooms. 
 
Essentially, these mischievous boys tried to wreak havoc in our room. When they were done, they filed out the door just like they had come in. I can assure you, it was not a romantic encounter. It makes me laugh just to think about it.
 
We girls must have visited Mrs. Ware the same evening. I had a little Kodak Brownie camera with a flash attachment and took photos on this trip. Some were good but most were just so-so….but mostly very poor.
 
The photo of me was taken in the hotel room the next day in my new Gimbel’s clothes. I call it my “Queen Elizabeth Photo.” Since my Mother saved everything, my daughter Michele says that my life is as well documented as Queen Elizabeth’s. : )
 
In later years when I traveled with the Just Friend’s Travel Club, our tour director said, “You can always tell when the trip is over.” She meant that sometimes it’s over before it’s actually over. It was obvious that our Senior class trip was over, and we were to leave the next day for home.

©Marilyn Francis Ferguson 2021
Photography/graphics by Michele Ferguson Schuck