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As a rule, I don't like baby or childhood pictures.  However, this one is an exception.  It was taken while I was visiting my grandparents in Lewisville, Ohio, in about 1948 or 1949.  My grandfather, Frank R. Billman, took this photo of me eating a huge slice of watermelon.  For some reason, he had installed a temporary fence around the eastern half of their front yard, apparently to keep me from wandering into the road.

Robert Alan Eating Watermelon

That's Ohio Route 78 in the background.  Route 78 runs 105 miles from Nelsonville to Clarington on the Ohio River.  Woodsfield, the county seat of Monroe County, is seven miles east of Lewisville on Route 78.

Ohio Route 78 Road Sign

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