Setting: Mountains
Characters: Girl, Grandmother, Grandfather, Crawfords' boy, Peter
Theme: Family traditions
When the girl was young in the mountains, her grandfather would come home from the coal mines. Her grandmother would spread food on the table. She would walk the girl to the outhouse at night after having too much okra. She went swimming and would stop at the Crawfords' on the way back for butter. They would pump water and heat it for baths, and then grandmother would make hot cocoa while they huddled by the stove. They would go to church at the schoolhouse on Sundays. They would also go to see baptisms. She even got to see her cousin Peter get baptized. They would listen to frogs, and grandmother would threaten the snakes with her hoe. Once she killed one that was long enough to be draped over 4 kid's necks.. They would also sit on the porch swing, and grandfather would sharpen pencils with knives. Grandmother would braid the girl's hair. The girl never want to go to the ocean or desert. She never wanted to go anywhere else. The mountains were always enough.
