Mary's Pond

We have an abundance of places to swim here in Southern New England, both fresh and salt water. Which do you prefer?

I spent many happy days in my youth at Mary's Pond in Rochester. Mary's Pond is where I learned to swim and bond with my cousins.

Family vacations were very different not that long ago. Growing up in the 1960s in working-class New Bedford, going away on vacation was foreign to many of us.