Graham Kislingbury

Two weeks ago today, my wife Nancy checked out “Bye Bye Birdie” from the library. A week later we would be watching our daughter Anna and bunch of kids we know perform in the stage version of the musical at West Albany High School.

Two weeks ago, I crossed Queen Avenue and walked across the West lawn to attend a meeting at the school. This morning that section of lawn was gone. And so were the birch trees and the reader board. Excavators were moving things out fast.