Growing Up in Williamsport, Ohio

Our Senior Class Trip
 
I don’t know when Williamsport High School started taking Senior class trips. None of my siblings had gone on one. My class held fund raisers for a long time so we could go. As I stated earlier, the Schein girls had purchased occasional cards to support us in that endeavor. We had also worked at the ticket and concession stands at ball games.
 
I turned 18 on May 3, 1956 and our Senior trip was scheduled to leave on May 4, 1956. Going out of state for the first time in my adult life was a big deal for me. We went to Columbus by bus for the all-day (12 hour) ride on a Pennsylvania Railroad train to Washington, D.C. I have always been active and found that I hated being on a train for a whole day. Late in the evening our train set stopped on a bridge over water (probably the Susquehanna River) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in a lightning thunderstorm. It was very scary and unpleasant.
 
Late at night, we finally arrived at our hotel in Washington, D.C. 
 
To Be Continued.

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