Overheard

Winter and subzero temperatures were no reason to stop having picnics when I was growing up in Iron River, Michigan in the 1940s and 50s. When it was cold outside, we kids still enjoyed hot chocolate, cookies and peanut butter sandwiches within the shelter of snow caves and snow houses. With 8 and 10 foot snowbanks being common alongside the road leading off Hunter Road to our house, ...