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What feels like home to you? I grew up in a small town in South Jersey. Nothing remarkable about it. A squat white bungalow with black shutters on a block in what was considered “Center City” in my semi-urban hometown. I often think about summers spent growing up in that house and the fun times hanging with the kids from the block at the corner of Cherry & East. Endless days of kickball and swimming in the small pool that my grandmother had purchased for us kids at Sears. Summer nights spent chasing fireflies around backyards and sitting on the front porch with neighbors after dinner. And of course any time of a day was a good time for chasing Mister Softee up Cherry Street with just enough loose coins in my hand to buy a delicious soft serve twist cone. Time moves forward and that of course was years and years ago. I’ve long since moved from away from my hometown in New Jersey and the white bungalow on the block. Since then, I’ve been lucky enough to live many places, see many things and benefit from the wealth of my experiences. Good fortune and hard work have given me the life I had always imagined and my days are spent working at a company I built from scratch and living in the happy home I love here in Savannah, GA. It is a satisfying existence and I really don’t want for anything. I am pleased to be where I am today. I daydream though. I think about the old block, the neighborhood kids that were such a big part of my life growing up and all the fun times we had back in the day. It seems that whenever I think of what feels like home, no matter how much I love where I am today, I am drawn back to the days of Cherry & East. Back to the carefree days that seemed like they would go on and on forever. When it came time to name this new venture and put a face on it, I found myself drifting back yet again and thinking about the first place that felt like “home” to me. Thinking about the things that make the memory of that modest house on Cherry Street one that I am drawn back to time and time again. And so Cherry & East was born. We all have that special place that takes us back and reminds us of home. Thank you for letting me share mine with you. Sincerely, |
