Summer Boredom

What I did as a kid in my pre-internet summers

After reading

Jolene Handy

’s “Manhattan, When I Was Young” I started to think about the things I used to do as a young teen, growing up in Western New York, before the internet, in summer when I was bored.

My small upstate town in the 1980s and NYC in the 1970s were completely different, but there is something about the expansiveness of time in Handy’s essay, the…