Essex Steam Train, August 1979 (Age 3)

Summer 1979, I'm guessing August based on the order of photos in the original album. Here's Jene with her pal Shaunee, and me with a "walking" Mickey Mouse doll that I still have. This must be Old Saybrook, Connecticut, where my grandpa and grandma had their cottage, because we're about to go to nearby Essex.

Me with Mickey and two more friends. Still in pajamas, but soon it was off to the train.

The Essex Steam Train, with my grandpa and Jene, all of us in the middle window.

Mom the photographer has now joined us on the train. The modern version of this train started in 1971 and is still operating today. Along with...

...a steamboat. I seem to know something's up with Dahmer over there.

On the Connecticut River with Gramps.
 

New York City Trip, 1980 (Age 4)

I grew up an hour away from New York City, and my love it may have started with the trips my grandpa would take us on when I was little. Here we are going to the circus at Madison Square Garden in 1980, probably April or May. Above, Jene and I with Gramps. (Top of parking garage between 30th and 31st Streets.) 

Between MSG and 2 Penn Plaza, at street level.

2PENN, which is undergoing a major renovation as I type this, 43 years later.

Looking east from that same parking garage at St. John the Baptist, because of the architecture, yeah, that's it, the architecture....  What's with me thinking "hands on knees" is the proper pose for parking garage shots??

The parking garage we were standing on is still there today, as seen in the above satellite map pic. The orange arrows show where we were standing and the direction of the shots looking out at MSG and then the church.