Nellie Winters

Sometimes we’d skip rope. Two would hold on the rope and one would skip in the middle. Sometimes you’d fall down. We used to sing songs sometimes. The seesaw was just a big junk of wood with a board put on it. You go up and down—one go up, one come down. Oh yeah, we’d take turns—fight over it too! They used to skate too. Mrs. Ogletree’s husband was a good old skier and skater, and he used to be trying to learn them how to skate. I put on my pair of skates and I went flat right away!

We’d make a snowman. Where it packs better in places, the snow is better for making igloos. We even had to make igloos one time at the boarding school. Someone was coming in, a visitor, and I had to be out sitting by the igloo trying to bottom a boot—and that perishing cold! Must have been for whoever they were to see us girls sewing outside the igloo. I suppose they couldn’t do it in the spring. It would melt on us!