Grant Park lawn

Keep walking through Grant Park, past the playground that somehow still manages to have a metal slide. Take a minute to slide down it. Imagine how fast you'd go if you sat on wax paper like Henry and Beezus!

Follow the trails through the park and you'll come to a grassy area at the back of the high school. This is where Beverly dug for nightcrawlers (aka worms!) one summer when she was in college to earn a little extra money. Henry does the same for his neighbor, earning one whole cent per worm to help him buy a new football.

Look around the park. If you're here in summer, you'll see kids on the basketball court, hear the splash of kids playing in the community pool, and have to jump off the path for kids zooming by on bikes. If you look past the trees you should see an enormous grassy off-leash area full of frolicking dogs. How Ribsy would have loved to play here!

It's been nearly 100 years since Beverly played at Grant Park, but it's still full of laughing children and happy dogs.