MEACHAM LANE MEMOIRS/Ramsey's Pond and My Secret Fishin' Hole
Marmont Hill Art Collective "Nash's Pond" by Curtis. The Meacham Lane gang could not have looked much different heading to Ramsey's Pond minus the picnic basket and plus another ball cap or two. Nothing honed my pre-adolescent fishing acumen more than my trips to Ramsey's Pond. My love of the old farm stock pond lasted through most of the years we lived at the little house on Meacham Lane and for another year or two when we relocated to the little grey rental house on Estes Lane. But, sometime around 1957 and eleven years of age the little gravel lane could no longer contain either me or my best friend, Sonny Vaughn, and our need to explore and that sense of adventure led us further and further away from the rows of houses and the tiny yards. I am not sure who was the first of the juvenile Sir Edmund Hillary "wantabes" that discovered the pond, located just over the railroad tracks on Husbands Road about three miles from the road's ...