2010. Summer. The last year before Southington ushered in a new education complex and demolished 3/4ths of the old building. It was the last year Jake’s Ice Cream was open. Jake’s: a horse trailer renovated into a freezer, parked outside of Hurd’s Market in the center of town, which was nothing less than the center of the universe, where we all flocked to just for a chance to get our hands on a scoop of Superman or play-dough ice cream, anything with cosmic swirls of yellow, blue, and red. Jake owned Hurd’s, which had been around since 1865, long before any school had been built.