Marion Bond Evans' earliest memories center on a three-story, Victorian home in Wyoming, where she and her siblings spent long, tranquil days practicing the Charleston, making fudge and playing outdoors until sundown.

        It was the 1920s, “before trouble was invented,” said Mrs. Evans, a 92-year-old resident of Evergreen Retirement Community in Hartwell. “It was all terribly wholesome stuff. It was such a wonderful house ... so lovely, bright and airy.”

        Saturday, she and three siblings — Doris Bond Voorhis, 89, Ernest “Bud” Bond, 88, and Francis Bond Brasington, 84 — visited their old home, at 115 Burns Ave., as part of Wyoming's annual Graduation Weekend.

        The event draws up to 200 Wyoming High School alumni, who rekindle relationships at dinner receptions and graduation ceremonies. This year, organizers arranged for them to visit the homes they grew up in.

        The Bond family gathered Saturday outside their old home, which they hadn't entered for almost 25 years. They were greeted by Brandon Cordes, the present owner, who assured them the old Bond home hasn't changed much.

        The home, the setting for a 1990 NBC Olivia Newton- John film, A Mom for Christmas, still has the same woodwork, light fixtures and seven fireplaces.

        “I used to slide down that banister,” Mrs. Evans said.

        She caressed dents in fireplace mantels and let her eyes wander to the parlor, where the Bond children had gathered every Sunday after long Baptist services to sing around a piano.

        Mrs. Evans was particularly struck by a fireplace mantel. Made of oak, it is carved with an Old English saying, “Weal befall hearth and hall.” The good tiding prompted her father to rent and eventually buy the home, which was built in 1871.

        “We were a very close family. It's a lovely big old Victorian house,” Mrs. Evans said.

        She and her siblings, all graduates of Wyoming High, live in retirement homes. They visited 115 Burns Ave. until the mid-1970s, when their mother died and their father, now deceased, moved into a retirement home.

        Mr. Cordes bought the house in 1976. When moving in, he and his wife found the Bond children's old toys, class pictures and postcards in the home's nooks and crannies.

        He grew up nearby and didn't mind welcoming the Bond family back into their old home. He also blessed them for never painting the woodwork.

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