Here's one more important thing I forgot to mention. Like I said I was raised mostly in Florida, from kindergarten to 8th grade, visiting both sets of grandparents was a real treat because of the COFFEE ICECREAM.....geez what a nice treat. Walnut flavored was 2nd. We didn't have grinders or frappes. We didn't have home delivered milk & cream. Who ever heard of basements in Florida....not me. It was a time to explore during my summer vacations in Whitinsville & Uxbridge. Still to this day I can remember walks on top of stonewalls while Gramma held my hand. It never occured to me who made all those stonewalls along Hill Street. Those were the days eh? Marcia

I never knew that coffee ice cream or maple walnut etc., were not universal flavors of ice-cream, wow! I love coffee ice cream and coffee milk and frappes. I have noticed that we here in N.E. have more stone walls than other areas of the country that I have traveled. We are like England and Ireland in use of field stone for walls and pasture land. My brother has been a stone/brick mason for years and he can make some beautiful walls of field stone, just walk around and pick the best and use it! I swear his talents go back to our Italian ancestors who were the first masons and built bridges and such in Italy. My kids loved walking the stone walls along Main Streets in town we lived and visited, with me holding their hands. That is a fond memory you brought back to me. Yes, those really were the good old days! Helen