Kitchen Stories

Recollections of This Fathers’ Day

There was a time before kitchens had mood lighting and islands with tall stool seats and appliances with digital readouts. The kitchen was the nexus of family life where everyone gathered for a sit-down breakfast together. A table model radio had its place against the wall. An overhead light provided all the illumination needed in the pre-dawn hours before the sun poured in through the large window above the sink. Maybe an ashtray accented the oilcloth table cover. Hunter Green dominated such rooms in those ’50s and ’60s era styles.