Volume 6 , Issue 12

Snow On A School Day (1938 or '39)...

"I believe this happened in 1938 or 1939 when I was in the second or third grade. We were living on the 1200 block of Choctaw Street and I attended Washington School. I would guess that it was a little over a mile from home to school. We woke up one morning to a heavy snowfall ... must have been 12 inches or more with high drifts over my head due to the ever present wind. I remember the ditches were drifted full.    I was dressed for school and left strugglng through the snow walking down the middle of the street. After what seemed to be an eternity I arrived at school to find it closed! I turned around and trudged back home to report this strange and wonderful fact to my mother. She simply said, 'Well, get those wet clothes off and start on your lessons here.' Durn another bubble popped. I'm fully prepared to have someone remember this same snowstorm and say there really wasn't too much to it, but it was Northwest to Alaska to an eight year old." -- Bill Barker   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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