Rye Fields“Before we took the cattle to range in the spring, Dad and Claude (Gracie’s older brother) would plant the two rye fields…Depending on what the ground was like, we would run the plow to cut the soil up.![]() Vandevert SchoolThe one-room schoolhouse was originally called the Harper School and was north of where South Century![]()
Skating Slough“We also skated both on the river and on the sloughs across the river. The sloughs froze best, and we would go over there and spend a couple hours. Claude would always put my “clamp-on” skates on my boots and away we would go! The river could be skated on too, but you had to be a little more cautious due to the current of the river! Some places were safe- others were not! Dad and Mom could also skate but I barely remember them doing so. …When I was quite young, I managed to fall through the ice by the bridge. The folks had company in the living room, and so I decided to bring water from the river. I had a little pail with a handle, went down the steps on the riverbank to the hole in the ice that was kept open, and reached down to get the water. Well, I slipped in, and all I can remember is that I popped back up though the hole and grabbed something on the riverbank and pulled myself out. When I got back to the house, they said the top of my head was wet and knew I had gone clear under. Dad said the river was rising at the time that buoyed me back up through that hole. Betty Daly told me she was there that day and remembers it all. I don’t know if I got spanked or not!” (from “Home on the Vandevert Ranch” by Gracie Vandevert McNellis, page 38. Used by permission.) |
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