THEY DID IT

They called off school today in MTV. Because it was too cold. The temp was 2 degrees early in the morning.

Give me a break! Pictured to the right is our school, Field, later changed to Dr. Andy Hall, a local physician. The year was 1957. A February if I remember. By the way, I'm the third one standing on the roof. It doesn't matter which side you start with; I'm the one in the middle.

I remember how my lungs felt when I sucked in hard with all the breath I could. The breath I would later need to shovel the three feet of snow we got. I shoveled most of the snow myself because I was told to. You see, I was a fourth grader and we only had two shovels.

The other guys and one gal, Sharon Cooper who had facial hair as dark as her Everett Dirkson eyebrows, took turns, but I manned (or boyed) the other shovel by myself. That's how dedicated I was to school. I didn't want them to cancel it so I could build snowmen, a snow village, an igloo, a fort, whatever I might come up with on a day off.

Ok, now the truth. They canceled school today because of the cold. Sharon Cooper's description was accurate.