Next Week is Elections, So...

Here's the image that was put on buttons when my father campaigned for Town Selectman of Bellingham Massachusetts in 1981. 

I was only a kid, so this time was a blur for me of him being out of the house campaigning for things I couldn't fathom. 

What I do remember clearly was how the campaign culminated in a mini-auto parade around town one weekend as my sister and I rode in the capped back of the family truck that took the lead as my Mom to the PA system telling townsfolk to vote for Roger Parenteau.  

Voting night on May fourth of that year ended with a waiting party downstairs while I tried to sleep upstairs. My Mom came upstairs to tell me he had lost. 

I do remember one other thing. Those buttons of my father? I brought one to school, which caused a bit of a to-do. In my defense, my Mego Captain America doll--I mean action figure--lost it's shield and needed a replacement.