My sister has the dubious distinction to have possession of several boxes of of old family photographs. There are a lot of the old pictures with people we can't identify. Dad was one of nine siblings and Mom was one of seven. Add to that the many dozens of cousins to make for a lot of confusion.

My sister sent me a few of the old pictures this week. Included is this picture of my first gig. I'm the chubby kid in the front on the right. I'm sure that this was for the annual Fourth of July kid's parade around our school in the background. I attended Thomas A Edison school from kindergarten through eighth grade.

If I was seven years old in that picture, the year was 1950. I began learning how to drum at that school when I was nine years old in fourth grade.