Living Family Archive

Lavelle Nelson

Biography

One of the family's school friends, named with Juanita. They had no icebox and stored milk and butter in a hole in the hillside behind their home.

Stories mentioning Lavelle

Ice Deliveries, Party Lines, and Summer in the BasementCarol describes well water pumped beside the sink, water heated on the stove, an icebox supplied by an iceman, and glass-bottled milk delivered during the war years. She contrasts her family's circumstances with school friends Juanita and Lavelle Nelson, who lived in a boxcar and cooled food in a hillside hole. She recalls distinctive party-line rings and secretly listening to conversations. In summer the family lived and ate in the cooler basement; her father eventually cut up their oak dining table to make a punching bag ceiling-mount.

Referenced in

Carol's Chapter — HOME

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