es o - "” LL (continued from page 1) cemetery. We pulled all of them up and planted them in our yard. We didn't know the Boy Scouts had planted them that morning. What happened next is another story. / I can recall stories about Alec Johnston, the Blacksmith and Marne Haming who owned the candy store, and there was Aunt Betty, not really our aunt, she collected live owls, and kept them on the back porch. Aunt Betty also collected unusual ducks and cross-bred them, the likes of which you've never seen. And the not so good memories of the KKK burning crosses in front of our house and sabotaging the construction of College Mise- ricordia. Winter Fun By ANNA MAE ESTUS Back when there were only a few cars on any road, Huntsville Street would be closed on the weekends to everything but sleds and bobsleds. There would be hundreds of people sleighriding and bobsledding. They came from the cities and towns around Dal- las by train and street car. The train was needed to transport the bobsleds and Flexible Flyer sleds. The men built their own bobsled, and each tried to make the fastest one. They were brightly painted and decorated. They had races to see who could reach the railroad station on Main Street from Grave- yard Hill the quickest. If they went on up Church Street, it was even better. There were no prizes, they Back when there were only a few cars on any road, Huntsville Street would be closed on the weekends to everything but sleds and bobsleds. raced for the sheer joy of it. Sleds were big too, Flexible Fly- ers came in all sizes from small child size up to ones six to eight people could fit. There were all kinds of ways to ride down hill - sitting up steering with your feet, or belly flop steering with your hands, and as many as could hang on would flop on top of one another. Half of them would fall into a snow bank on the way down the hill, laughing all the way. 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Good Until Aug. 30, 2000. _ The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, March 1, 2000 5 barn in the far back of our yard, come down over the terrace that separated the upper and lower backyard. go around the house over another terrace, much higher, jump a stone wall at the bottom into Miss Wordon’s yard — we could do that because of the thick crust on the snow — around her front yard, along the side of her house ending at her back door. She would be sitting in her kitchen window watching and enjoying every minute. She was in her nineties, but I'm sure she would have loved to sleighride too. Part of our sleighriding path crossed a sidewalk from our back door. One night we had lots of company, we always did. We al- most never went out at night, but with all those city cousins sleighriding was a must. We should have continued sailing down the path but we stopped abruptly - the sidewalk had been ashed! We couldn't scrape the ashes off so I got the idea of pour- ing water over the ashes to freeze into ice. We all carried water from the kitchen and covered the ashes. It was very cold and the water froze quickly. Our path was open again and we were having a grand time until one of our uncles came outside and immediately slipped on the ice and fell. To punish us, my father made all of us carry ashes from the cellar and cover the ice on the sidewalk and the entire sleighriding path. That ended our sleighriding for days and days. The school was next to our house and that side of it never got Mille would freeze and push the cream up out of the glass bottle with the cardboard lid still on top. My sister Madeline and I would break the frozen cream off the top and eat it on our way to school. much sun. so snow would be there until spring, melting a little and freezing a lot. It would become one big sheet of ice. You could start from behind the school with a run and slide all the way to the sidewalk in front of the school. Recess was one long thrilling slide. If you were lucky you stayed on your feet, but your belly or your behind was just as much fun. We could get several good slides be- fore the bell would ring much too quickly. I often wonder how the kids explained the wet clothes and holes in the knees of their stock- ings to their mothers. I never had to explain to my mother, she saw first hand. Alice, my best friend, had an old baby sleigh made of ornate wicker lined with quilted green velvet. It had a handle so you could push your baby in the snow for a sleighride. It was big and deep so you could snuggle your baby down in furry blankets to keepitwarm. So that gave enough room for Alice to fit in there with her long legs sticking out over the end. I pushed her all over Main Street and the side streets, alleys and fields if there happened to be a crust on the snow. Such fun we had laughing all the way! She was dumped in the snow many times cutting the curves too sharply. But the snow was soft and no harm done. It was sad to hear that that sleigh was destroyed in a barn fire, but our memories are still with us. We had big long icicles from our side porch roof to the ground. Those we couldn't eat, but there were long thin ones we could eas- ily reach and break off. They were clear and crystal, you could see through them and I remember their taste. We ate snow too. We would stir in a little sugar and vanilla and call it snow ice cream. Were you to eat them today, you would probably die of some awful thing. Milk would freeze and push the cream up out of the glass bottle with the cardboard lid still on top. My sister Madeline and I would break the frozen cream off the top and eat it on our way to school. That treat didn't continue long. When the milk thawed in the house, of course there was a big gap where the cream should have been. Needless to say, that was a short lived pleasure. Snow was deep then, high as a grown-up in our drive way. I suppose it just looked deep to us because we were little, but pic- tures in mother's photo album of the snowbanks shoveled on both sides of the driveway were higher than the big Cadillac parked there. Cars were very high from the ground then. Shoveling that long driveway was work. Ablizzard would keep us inside for days with shutters closed, shades down, drapes drawn and the steam radiators comfortingly hissing. It was hard to keep the howling wind outside. That was our only insulation. Eventually there was weather stripping made of felt and going on to copper which made weird noises when the wind was strong. Then came wood and glass storm windows you had to put up in the fall and take down in the spring. Those | graduated to the ones homes have today. When I stand by my win- dows comfortably now, I kind of wish for a good old-fashioned bliz- zard, drafts and all. 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