coronation

According to my page-a-day trivia calendar the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II took place on June 2, 1953.  Amazingly enough, since I was only eight years old, I remember the event.  I didn't remember the actual date until I read it in today's calendar, but I clearly remember spending the morning in the kitchen with my mother listening to the broadcast of the coronation on the radio; the same radio that gave us the farm report and weather news every morning. We didn't get our first TV set until 1956.  Thinking back, I realize that the details of the broadcast must have been excellent because I was right there with my mom listening for the entire morning.  Lucky for me, school was out for the summer.  I don't know what my oldest brother was doing during this time but I'm guessing he wasn't as entranced as I was with descriptions of robes and crowns and carriages, etc. as I was.  My younger brother aka my west coast brother hadn't been born yet, so he's excused.