Midwest
Stories set here
- Midwest Seasons, Family Outings, and the First School BusDee recalls gardens, suntanning, summer treats, drive-in movies, and Fourth of July fireworks. Family trips took her to Chicago’s Museum of Art and Science and The Loop, then to Clarence’s farm in Worthington, Minnesota. Halloween brought homemade treats and Bernie’s prizewinning window paintings; winter brought sledding, snow figures, and Bernie and Bob’s newspaper-worthy igloo. Her earliest school memories are of crying before the kindergarten bus and refusing warm milk at Roosevelt school, where Mrs. Johnson played piano.
- A Summer Hailstorm Becomes Peach Ice CreamWhile Bernard and Toby Fry played Crow on the Frys' porch, a sudden summer hailstorm left a thick covering of quarter-inch hailstones. Mrs. Fry had them gather the hail and used it with rock salt to freeze cream, sugar, and peach slices in nested cans. Singing and laughing, she joined the children in rolling the can across the kitchen floor. They then ate all the ice cream on the porch.
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