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About Town: School's Out for the Summer

Patch Correspondent Steve Rogers asks are you ready for the summer?

School children all across America are anxiously watching the days pass and the clocks tick till the final bell rings that releases them into the freedom of summer. For most local kids emancipation day comes this week. As the saying goes, "no more pencils...no more books...no more teacher's dirty looks...no more math and history...summertime has set me free." There is no comparison to the feeling of looking ahead to future days of idle time in a period of our lives when our bodies are young and strong and our minds are clear and unfettered. Exiled from the kingdom of children, adults can only think back on all of their last days of school, all those early hours of summer, before work and careers. They reach for the butterflies that fluttered inside of them then, now impossible to catch...but to glimpse them again, if only in their memories is still...so sweet.

To mark this high holy day in the calendar of children, I asked Red Bankers to look back and remember the circumstances and feelings of the last day of school and the majesty of summer.

To kids everywhere, particularly my own, who reminds me of the feelings I thought I'd forgotten...School's Out...Welcome Summer.

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