Easy Reader Writing and Photography Contest, Honorable Mention: “Hazel Street” (essay) by Dave Siemineski, “Girl at sunset” (photo) by Mike Chickey

I remember the first day I saw the small little wood treasure chest on Mr. Nicholson’s his workbench. I asked him what was in it by Dave Siemineski Everybody knew everybody. That’s the way we grew up on our block, and that’s the way it was in the 1950s. I never had a key to my house. We never locked it. The kids played in the street, or in the b