February 8, 2026
To the reader: I wrote this post on the Lexicans website (under a different title) 11 years ago – in 2015. I noticed someone was reading it last night, and pulled up the post to get refreshed. Something that always bothered me – the pictures were too dark. They were shot with Kodak Ektachrome (for those who remember film) – a film that tended towards the bluish side. They were scanned from slides some years ago and they were always too dark by the time they were on the web. The decades also affected the colors.
Since this tale isn’t related to the story I’ll just get to the point. In trying to edit and upload the new pictures, I hit “save” and it saved the new picture all right – and deleted the post!
So I am rewriting this story – which happened 50 years ago this upcoming September. There was more to add, which wasn’t in the original story. So I’ll make it more complete this time.
I’ve had a friend since I was 12 years old – also named Bill. He is the kind of friend that can resume conversations years later after an absence.
I have told this little story to people lately just to show how much my town has changed.
Individually we were good boys, but together we were like a catalyst. We never really got into serious trouble, but his line to me was always “Shut up and let me do the talking!”. Which I would usually do but it rarely made a difference. “Mischief” is what I would call so many of our activities.
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