We were told to think of a spot from our childhood that we really enjoyed and how it has changed since our parents childhood to ours. A spot that I really enjoyed as a child was a little pond at Tod Park, in my hometown. The pond was also there when my mom was a child and it changed quite a bit over the years. When my mother was younger new developments called Seneca Woods and Sqaw Creek were developed behind the park and they had their pipes routed to where it would dump waste into the pond. After years and years of wastes being dumped into the water it made the pond become contaminated and so no one was allowed to swim in it. Although the pond became contaminated before my time and I never got to swim in the water, I still enjoyed standing on the banks of the pond with a little fishing pole in my hand trying to catch a fish during my family reunions. Eventually the city decided that the pond was a hazard to the community and so they drained out all the water and filled the pond in with dirt and covered it with grass. Still to this day in the grass covered field you can see the shape of the pond, a mere ghost of its glory days.
Photos from the trip:
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