I attended a now closed nursery school located on Carrollton Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. This was in 1965. My aunt Marie Louise Bailey who was 8 years older than me was a middle school student attending Harlem Park Middle School. We lived in the same house together. She would drop me off at nursery school and pick me up after she left for school every day. On a number of occasions we would also visit my great-grandfather who lived not far from us. He was a boarder and lived on the second floor of a duplex.
After nursery school, I attended Mary E. Rodman, School #4, which was a half day kindergarten program. My uncle, the late Melvin Bailey, would pick me up and together, we would walk back home from school. During this time, my mother was a fourth grade teacher.
My parents and I lived in an apartment in Edmondson Village. My father worked for Bethlehem Steel as a full time union employee alongside my uncle Gregory Mears Bailey Sr.
I also attended ballet classes every Saturday. This is what I recall. I also remember my grandmother, the late Myrtle Bailey. We were extremely close. We were like best friends. These are some of my fondest memories from when I was about 4 years old.
