By Jerry Apps
The Quiet Season
Remembering nation Winters
Jerry Apps
“As i feel again to the times of my youth, the frost-covered home windows in my bedroom,
the frigid walks to the rustic tuition, the thrill of a snow fall, and 100 different thoughts, I discover that those studies left an indelible mark on me and made me who i'm today.”—From the Introduction
Jerry Apps remembers winters turning out to be up on a farm in imperative Wisconsin through the latter years of the melancholy and during international struggle II. ahead of electrical energy got here to this a part of Waushara County, farmers milked cows through hand with the sunshine of a kerosene lantern, woodstoves heated the drafty farm houses, and “making wood” used to be a tremendous a part of each winter’s paintings. the kids in Jerry’s rural group walked to a rustic university that was once heated with a woodstove and had no indoor plumbing. Wisconsin winters then have been a time of mirrored image, of making plans for subsequent 12 months, and of households drawing jointly. Jerry describes how iciness motivated farm households and means that these folks who develop up with harsh northern winters are profoundly affected in methods we frequently aren't conscious.
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As if it’s not bad enough to be called the three Buddhist monks! ” “The other day,” Third Brother complained bitterly, “my desk partner asked me when I was going to start growing a pigtail and shaving my brow. ” “What gets me,” Big Sister said, “is the blatant inequality between her children and us. I wouldn’t mind if all seven of us were treated the same way. ” “Aside from the clothes,” Second Brother interrupted, “what about our shaved heads? I don’t see Fourth Brother sporting a Buddhist Monk Special!
There was a young chef wielding his cleaver and deftly chopping a duck into bite-size pieces on a wooden block. Wouldn’t it be heavenly to be given a slice of meat? But that might be too much to hope for. I would be quite content with a piece of bone to chew on. As I salivated, I imagined the taste of the food sliding down my throat. Breakfast seemed such a long time ago! Someone was touching my shoulder! I started and looked up. A large, red-faced woman whom I had just seen bustling around the tables in the restaurant was speaking to me.
If you had not been born, Mama would still be alive. She died because of you. ” ALSO AVAILABLE IN LAUREL-LEAF BOOKS: THE HERMIT THRUSH SINGS, Susan Butler BURNING UP, Caroline B. , Joan Lowery Nixon HALINKA, Mirjam Pressler TIME ENOUGH FOR DRUMS, Ann Rinaldi CHECKERS, John Marsden NOBODY ELSE HAS TO KNOW, Ingrid Tomey TIES THAT BIND, TIES THAT BREAK, Lensey Namioka CONDITIONS OF LOVE, Ruth Pennebaker I have always cherished this dream of creating something unique and imperishable, so that the past should not fade away forever.