Echoes of Spring Valley

afternoon baking became Ben Webster Blynken bobsled boys bucket butter child childhood chores Christmas classroom cobs cold considered contest corn husking county seat county superintendent cream day's end days at Spring door early eighth grade Ella Cinders enjoyed enrollment farm favorite field floor Florence Henderson girls Hallowe'en Hamilton County Harold Bell Wright heat Henderson Grove high school home from school homemaker Iowa kitchen learned lefse lesson little Gustava lunch lutefisk MacKinlay Kantor Maggie meal memory Miss Vivian morning mother neighbor never night noon hour old Kentucky home parents perhaps permission pick play pupils remember road roll rural school school day schoolhouse schoolmates schoolroom Scott Township season snow sometimes song spelling Spring Valley School Stephen Foster stove straw summer supper teacher teaching threshing throughout town usually vacation wagon warm Webster City winter young