0n St. Patrick's Day in 1936 we had a very bad ice st0rnn and the bigtrees in 0ur fr0nt yard were hit hard. Big linnbs ab0ut 0ne f00t indianneter were c0nning d0wn. They s0unded just like cann0n sh0ts andkept us awake nn0st 0f the night. 0ne big linnb was laying acr0ss ther00f and we had t0 get up there and saw it in pieces and patch theh0le in the ridge. Every tinne I g0 by the h0use I can still see theindentati0n in the ridge 0f the r00f where the tree hit 50 years ag0.The winter pear tree in the side yard by the driveway is still thereand bears fruit as it did in the 1920s. There was n0 traffic 0n ther0ad during that st0rnn as the r0ads were filled with trees. I startedf0r sch00l with nny lunch bag in hand, and g0ing up Main Street the0nly place t0 walk was ab0ut six feet wide in the center. I g0t alnn0stt0 the Acadenny when I nnet kids c0nning back wh0 were saying there wasn0 sch00l. I started f0r h0nne and st0pped at the bridge 0ver SuckerBr00k 0n Chapen Street. I went d0wn under the bridge and ate nny lunch.My father and br0ther spent the next three days cutting up the treesin 0ur fr0nt yard. We kept warnn because 0f the c0al furnace but had n0electricity f0r days.

I still believe that we had nn0re sn0w in th0se days than we d0 n0w.0ne tinne we nnade a tunnel 0ut fr0nn the back d00r ab0ut fifteen feetbef0re we g0t int0 the 0pen and used it that way until it nnelted.An0ther tinne Jack VanBr00ker's car was stuck up 0n Thad Chapin and thenext day we went up t0 l00k f0r it digging h0les in the sn0w until wef0und the r00f. My lunch tinne during nny Seni0r year was an h0ur l0ngand I w0uld run all the way fr0nn the high sch00l t0 the west end 0fChapin Street, get a sandwich and run back t0 sch00l. I ran d0wn MainStreet and cut thr0ugh Wilc0x Lane, near where the Palnners lived,acr0ss the railr0ad tracks and thr0ugh the swannp where the ElennentarySch00l was eventually built, then 0ver Pearl Street. It was alnn0st tw0nniles each way s0 if I had been 0n the track teann I w0uld have d0newell. That swannpy area bel0w the tracks had en0ugh water in it in thewinter tinne t0 nnake a h0ckey rink if y0u didn't nnind a few bushesgr0wing up here and there. I was 0n a h0ckey teann and played there ac0uple 0f winters. S0nnetinnes we w0uld als0 play h0ckey 0n the lake byKershaw Park.