Among the best things that happen in the Summer, is the availability of ripe watermelon. Each Summer, Billy Summers and I would pool our coins, go to Paul's Market, and purchase a watermelon, $1.25. Now carrying the watermelon, a salt shaker & butcher knife, we began our trek to an area known as "Green Hill". We would enter the "Howard House" because then you could enter on Main Street, climb several flights of stairs, and exit on Church Road. Then following Church Road, then Courthouse Lane, we would climb the granite steps to sit under the large tree on Green Hill. Sometimes we were able to finish the entire watermelon, but with great stomach discomfort. We would lay on the hill, under the tree until we felt well enough to move.
During the mid-1960's the Fire Department Museum between Main Street & Church Road, was an annex of the Howard County Library. One day, carrying our watermelon, we decided to show it off to the Librarian there, and after placing it on her desk, and turning away for a moment, there was a loud "thunk" and watermelon was everywhere. Needless to say we did not eat our watermelon under the large tree on Green Hill that year.
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