Jim Leggitt’s childhood home, located at 1106 West Ave., is pictured as it stands in August 2003. A walnut tree stood at the back corner of the property, near the garage. The front trees were yet to be planted, and the roof had previously been flat.
As a little kid, I was enamored with heights. My grandparents had one of the few two-story houses in Wellington. There were seats beneath the upper windowsills that doubled as storage cabinets, mostly for out-of-season clothes and blankets. I enjoyed sitting there and just looking at what I thought were faraway places.
When I visited my other grandparents south of town they had a large …
