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Page 60 be the gathering place. The old swimming hole turned in to a skating pond in the winter. When we had parties we tried to pick a moonlight night and it would be a Friday or Saturday night. If snow had fallen to cover the ice to any depth us younger “bucks” would spend the afternoon cleaning it with scoop shovels and by night it would be in tip-top shape. We would gather a good sized pile of wood from dead branches along the creek and even steal a few chunks from wood piles if necessary. When the skaters gathered a fire would be lighted. Sometimes songs would be sung around the fire but mostly we just skated. Occasionally we would skate cross-handed with one of the girls but it was more fun to show-off skating backwards and cutting figure eights all by yourself. When the fire burned down to a good bed of red hot coals we would start roasting marshmallows |