Memories Left for My Kids

The snowball fortress

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.
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 …