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     A game of street hockey heingpluyed in front of the Murphy house on Riverview 
     
    
   
   
    
     Drive. Building in the background is Spring Park United Church 
     
    
   
   
    
     A fee of 25 cents per car was paid and the family would enjoy two to 
     
     three hours picnicking, swimming and playing in the warm south shore 
     
     sands. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Life in the Murphy household could sometimes be hectic, and it was not 
     
     always a simple matter to account for everyone’s whereabouts. That was 
     
     complicated by the fact that other parents in the neighbourhood like the 
     
     Dohertys and the Younkers would take turns driving children to the rink 
     
     and picking them up. One evening, someone forgot to pick up Kevin 
     
     after a minor hockey game at the Charlottetown Forum. Kevin walked 
     
     the mile and a half miles from the Forum on Fitzroy Street to Riverview 
     
     Drive — with his skates on. Until he arrived home, no one had realized he 
     
     was even missing. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Family vacations were much—anticipated events. One time, they took a 
     
     weekend trip around the Cabot Trail. On another occasion, they traveled 
     
     to Quebec City for a pee wee hockey tournament. One year, they packed 
     
     a tent and went to Ottawa, stopping along the way to camp in Fundy 
     
     Park. They took along the children and all piled into the family car, one 
     
     child (invariably Mary Jane, the only daughter), sitting between Kathleen 
     
     and Bill, another seated on Kathleen’s lap and the rest in the backseat. 
     
    
   
   
    
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