Manic Monday ~ POP

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My father worked for General Electric while I was growing up. Every year G.E. would ‘shut down’ the plant for 2 weeks in the summer. This meant employees would get a paid 2 week vacation exactly when they wanted/needed it. The middle 2 weeks in July were the optimal time for this. (It also meant that every year, my birthday was celebrated away from home.) For these 2 weeks, Dad would rent a cottage on Cape Cod in the Dennisport area. [I eventually developed some sort of eye allergy to salt water. My eyes would be cemented shut by “gunk” every morning. Being of a young, tender age, I thought I had gone blind. Our summers on Cape Cod became summers on a beautiful fresh water lake in New Hampshire.]

So, what does this have to do with POP? We had no television in the cottage. We made our own entertainment and listened to the radio. I guess my brain just works in very mysterious ways these days. HOWEVER… the POP song for those summers on Cape Cod was Patti Page’s version of “Old Cape Cod.” I remember just sitting and listening to that song time after time. It leaves me with the desire once again return to the naivety of my childhood summers on THE Cape. Ah, such an innocent romantic I was as a child.