A Day To Remember At Aunt Pauline's
Grandpa Benjamin J Garlock, 1877 – 1971 Aunt Pauline – Pauline Garlock, 1899 – 1987 In a few days, it would have been my grandpa’s 137th birthday. So many years have gone by since the day I’m going to tell you about it. I suspect it was in 1943 or 1944 when I was 13 or 14 years old. I was too young to legally carry a firearm which for some reason I had a great desire to do. When I was at home my very law-abiding father would see that I did not. Grandpa Garlock, Aunt Pauline, and I were spending a few days at her old log camp in the woods over the mountain from Lake George. Usually, I did not venture too far off the beaten path since I had little sense of direction in the woods. That day I decided to follow a stream for a couple of miles to a mountain lake called Three Ponds. It was too far for Grandpa to walk and Aunt Pauline was busy as alwaysType your paragraph here. My mother, Aunt Pauline, Grandpa Garlock and Skip in front of Aunt Pauline’s camp So I was to take this trek all...