Christmas
Memories
from the Gatewood Homee |
Emma's daughter, Lucy, sent this Christmas Memory to share about holidays in the Gatewood Home: "Living
on a large farm in snow country in Gallia County, Ohio, it was always
a white Christmas. On the last day of school before the holiday
vacation the teachers gave each student a pound bag of hard Xmas candy
and sometimes an apple or orange. When we got home our older brother
would have the horse hooked up to a large sled and we'd get to ride
over the hills to the site of a good scotch pine (Christmas) tree.
The tree was placed in the parlor by the fireplace (the parlor was used
only in the winter and the fireplace was the only source of
heat in the room. In the main living room was a pot bellied heatrola;
the kitchen woodburning stove heated the dining room and there
was one upstairs bedroom above the parlor with a fireplace.) Mama
or one of the older girls would pop bowls of popcorn which we young
ones would string for rope around the tree. Other ornaments were
made for the tree also. All of us picked up tin foil on the road
from cigarette and chewing gum packages and stars and balls were made
from it. Sycamore tree balls were sprayed silver and hung on the
tree. There were very few manufactured decorations and they were
given us. I guess we were a 'do it yourself family'.
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