Memories & Nostalgia

We lived in the same home on Gurley Road in Nixon, New Jersey, which is in Edison Twp., NJ, until I was 14 years old, and ready to start high school. Then we moved to Bergen County, NJ, to an older somewhat historic home (the stones made by a bricklayer right next door to the house we lived in) with a fireplace. As the oldest, with 4 years between each of us, the youngest was 4 at that time.

I remember how lighting the fireplace was something new and special for all of us. Every now and then we would cook hot dogs on the fire. We made our own long hot-dog-holders with coat hangers, and held our hot dogs over the fire until they sizzled and were ready to eat.

Hot dogs were not the only things we cooked over the fire, we also enjoyed marshmallows now and then, just like sitting around the campfire right in the living room. I’m glad my parents were not so concerned about formality and allowed for simple fun like this…when was the last time you cooked anything in your fireplace?