Super-Structure Raft - part 1

"Growing up" in rural small-town Ohio provided children a vast amount of freedom to create from imagination. One example of this freedom was a day-long summertime project of creating a raft cobbled together by me and my buddy, using trash from a burned-down barn dumped beside a creek.

Dick and I named our creation Super-Structure Raft.   So memorable was our little adventure that it became an example when offering a drawing class encouraging my also-aging students to illustrate a personal story in cartoon fashion.  

Let me present on my website this 3-part illustrated story of our adventure: Dick with his dog Penny; and me with my dog Reno.

(P.S.  I recently heard from Dick's adult daughter, still living in Ohio. She had probably heard this story from her father, well before his death from ALS.  
I dedicate these February post series as a personal remembrance of our private celebration - "Ursa Major Day".

........................   To be continued    .............