1969 Done with the church Dad turned to Rick who withdrew bank money saved from days he rode bicycle to stock store shelves at A&P, on the other side of Rockford. The summer he left for college without anything to take because Dad talked him out of it so we could make the down payment on a three story red brick house that sat next to a dead-end street. Had what Dad called potential. He and Mom stripped inside trim to show oak under yellow paint, testimony to the bargain the summer savings helped secure, an investment in the future that Rick was happy to escape, and I was jealous he made it because I saw what was in store. - C. N. Bean