Visual development

In Waynesboro, on the surface.. . one summer was very like another: to the casual eye the children playing their games in the big yards behind the iron fences were eternally the same as the girls and boys of the year before and the year before that. But the games of one season were played by another generation than those who had played them three or four years earlier, so quickly does childhood pass into adolescence, adolescence into adulthood. Helen Hooven Santmyer And Ladies of the Club