The long, hot summer of 1976 – sat here writing this in the wet, crappy summer of 2012.

This is The Brother on a slide at Midsummer Meadow pool, about to plunge through the ice into the frigid waters. OK, I exaggerate – but not much. Mind you ’76 was so hot that they might not have had to employ the ice breakers that year.

And a couple of candids from the Market Square