I was watching a few Pennsylvania Dutch children woodworking at the Kutztown Folk Festival.  They were all dressed in traditional clothing – straw hats and suspenders for the boys and pretty flowered dresses for the girls.  I couldn’t help but notice that several of the children were barefoot.  They didn’t seem to mind running and playing without shoes on the macadam, grass, straw and dirt.  In contrast, some of the boys wore heavy leather boots which seemed out of place in the heat of the summer on a child.  This image perfectly captures what I remember about that scene.