Articles for tag: 1940s and 1950s, Kids, Summer Vacation

What Kids Did on Summer Vacation in the 1940s and 1950s

By Rita McMahon Often our first school writing assignment in the fall was to write two or three paragraphs on what we did during summer vacation. It let our friends and teacher know what fun we’d had all summer, and for the teacher, how much we had forgotten over the summer. One thing we learned ...