Published in the North Reading Transcript on July 2, 2026
By VIRGINIA MCNEIL SLEP
When I was a child, growing up on Mount Vernon Street, summer was a time of open windows. Nobody had air conditioning...even the stores in Reading Square just propped their doors open all day and hung up strips of…
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