Remembering Easter at Aunt Mary's House

Easter in Dundalk at the Dundalk Maryland Shopping Center

On Easter Sunday, Aunt Mary's house on Peachtree Street in Watersedge looked like Santa's North Pole chocolate factory. She purchased every seasonal candy confection available in the
Dundalk Read's Drug Store and beyond.

We visited Aunt Mary Ash every Easter because, franky, that's where the Easter Bunny lived.

Every sort of Easter variety candy and "peep" known to exist wound up in Aunt Mary's buffet display.
Especially enticing were the hollow milk chocolate eggs with little Easter scenes inside and our names
written in icing on the outside.

I have no idea how long it took Aunt Mary to consume all that cand,y because even with two adolescent
nieces and a nephew visiting, there was enough left over to open a candy retail outlet. 

She and Uncle Joe didn't have children of their own, so we were extra special.

God Rest Her Soul, my Aunt Mary Ash made Easter into more of a cholcolate, rather than a religious, holiday. Indeed, if heaven doesn't serve chocolate, then it's likely she isn't going to be there.

Honestly, Baltimore enjoys some of the most beautiful Easter retail exhibits as anyplace I've ever
been, and I've been to a few places. At least, I recall when we were growing up in Baltimore, the Easter
offerings were as varied as the colors in a jelly bean factory.

Easter at Aunt Mary's cannot be replicated or duplicated, but the memories she created for us will always be appreciated. Happy Easter to all the Aunt Mary's and Uncle Joe's among us, who created family memories, with or without draining the entire chocolate inventory at the historic Dundalk Read's Drugstore.