I thought that because I have a couple of pictures that show the cherry tree in the yard at 509 Parade, and because I have a block of wood from that tree, that I should put it in the blog. I can remember eating the cherries, but it was probably when the Filipkowski family lived there.
The B&W pictures were taken about 1939. With the bench (which Dede has in Houston) are Lucille, Nancy, Betty, grandma (Julia) and Anna.
About 1980 the tree succumbed to old age, and the man that owned 509 at that time told my dad that I could cut it up for my wood stove. I saved one piece for posterity.
P.S. After talking with Nancy, we've decided that the tree in the second picture is a different tree. It would have been taken from about where the bench was.
