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Jun 30 2008

Back to the Tick

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The house I grew up in. My bedroom was the last window on the right. That wonderful old tree was the scene of many adventures. The huge garage is 'boarded up' now and I'm assuming has been renovated into a main room of the house. My buddy Adam's house is a few lots down and looks much as I remember it.
Apparently Island View Drive is towards the bottom of the town's "2 Plow" list. Terry Jackson's house. I remember it as being brown with a Fiero parked in front of it. The park in the middle of the subdivision. The stacks of wood that the Dads would make into a skating rink each winter are long gone.
Is that the old jungle gym poking up through the deep snow? We used to turn this upside down and rock it back and forth while riding it. Until someone's Mom inevitably looked out their kitchen window and quickly put a stop to it. I can't believe that's st Island View Drive's new sign. This Legion in the "Manotick Mews" used to be a Mac's Milk where I would feed lots of lawn-mowing money into the coin-op Temple of Doom and Return of the Jedi games.
The center of any Canadian community, the arena, looks the same as it did when I learned to skate there 30 years ago. Manotick Public School's basketball court - where I played what were probably my first games. The schoolyard is still huge - every recess brought new possibilities from Kindergarten all the way through grade 5.
The main school building where the ostracized French Immersion students were sequestered. Watson's Mill - the historic center of Manotick, Ontario. The Veteran's memorial beside the mill which I visited many Novembers with poppies pinned to my chest. I was in awe of 'war' from a very early age and always had respect for this place.
I guess they're fixing up the windows. In the summertime this is a hotbed of tourist activity and the main attraction of Dickinson Day the first weekend in June. I'm gonna go this year - it was like Christmas when we were kids. http://www.manotick.net/di Watson’s Mill is a unique working 19th century grist and flour mill. It is the only industrial heritage site in the city of Ottawa and one of the few remaining operating grist mills in North America. Tales of the Mill Ghost thrilled the pants off us as kids as we'd wander through the old place. http://www.watsonsmill.com/Mill_Ghost.html
   
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Description: Driving around in the town I spent the first decade of my life in. I hadn't been there in over 20 years.
Location: Manotick, Ontario



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