To the Editor:

At this time of year, I like to reflect back on growing up in our little world, in our section of the old neighborhood. We all looked forward to the Christmas season.

There was the midnight Mass at the Holy Family Church on Harrison Street – how they decorated the alter of the church with all those poinsettias! That’s how Christmas looked to me in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It was like a Norman Rockwell painting.

December 21, 2016