My grandmother use to say, "better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than open it and remove all doubt". I adopted that as my life motto, although as a writer I probably don't keep my thoughts shut and probably am a fool.
(My grandmother and me in "Battle Park".)
Of course that is the theme of "Portrait in the Park". "Battle Park" is fictitious, sort of, at least that isn't its real name. It is based on a park from my childhood where I played a lot. All the parades in town ended up in the park and there was a sesquicentennial of the town that I used for the story.
There were pools of water in the center of the park, stocked with giant gold fish. They had little artificial waterfalls, but there was no obelisk or portrait in that park. There was a bent, elderly caretaker I remembered from my boyhood and I used him for the model of the one in the story.
(All dressed up with my date for the "Wilmillar" Sesquicentennial Ball 1959)
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