Contents
Prologue
Beginnings
Courtship
Starting a Life Together
Connection to the Past
A Sense of Place
Wash Day
Refrigerators I Have Known
The Voice of the Good Neighbor
The Queen
The Humble Apron
The Kitchen Table
A Cat’s World
Picking and Preserving
Fishing and Hunting
Cow Culture
Milking
A Horse’s Life
Visitors
Olaf “Ole” Carlson
Uncle Jerry
Indiana Relatives
Rob and Inee
Frank the Milkman
Picnics, Parties, Showers, and Shivarees
Meteor Community Politics
The Hazy Days of Summer
Summer of the Cyclone
Hunting Season
Mom’s Retreat
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
Wearing of the Wool
Christmas
Winter’s Grip Turns Sweet
The Run
Finally, Spring!
Nature’s Playground
Junked
A Button Box Day
Rural Free Delivery
Perfect in Black and White
At Grandpa Sam and Grandma Bessie’s
Deer Lake with Dad
Sunday Sojourns with Mom
Driving Lessons
Valley View Schoolhouse: One Room for All
Country School Days through the Seasons
A House in the Rocks
Hey, Batter!
Halloween Masquerade Party
The Golden Book of Favorite Songs
The Christmas Program
Valentine’s Day
Smokey Bear
The School Year Comes to an End
Meteor Bible School
Graduation
Riding the Roads through Winter
Weirgor
Going to Town
Exeland
Veness’s
Ladysmith
Doc Distress’s Dental Office
Grandma and Grandpa Walhovd’s Birchwood Home
Around Birchwood
Windfall Lake and Spooner
Hayward
Forget-Me-Not
Epilogue
Acknowledgments