Vintage landscape: take water, add children, part II

White House children's party, April 4, 1963/JFK Presidential Library

Children’s party on the South Lawn of the White House, April 4, 1963.

All photos are by Cecil Stoughton (Office of the Military Aide to the President), via the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

White House children's party, April 4, 1963/JFK Presidential Library

If you were wondering whether to put in a super-huge fountain or a swimming pool, please note that you can have both in one.

White House children's party, April 4, 1963/JFK Presidential Library

“Take water. . ., part I,” is here.

Remember summer? Bubbles filled
the fountain, and we splashed. We drowned
in Eden. . .

— Robert Lowell, from “The Public Garden