THE GARMAN-GILL FAMILIES, Elizabeth Garman Gill, January 1971.
How dear the river was to us! In the summer we swam or paddled and threw water on each other, or ducked one another. In winter the beautiful clear water froze over completely from shore to shore, so clear that through the ice we could see the stones lying on the bottom. We all skated, from the oldest to the youngest. Ernest excelled in skating. He could skate backward as fast as forward and did fancy figures on the ice. He usually won the races. We could skate to school and back and on Saturdays the boys with others from Barnesboro skated to Cherry Tree and spent the afternoon on McKeage’s Dam. There were wonderful skating parties at night with a fine fire on the bank to warm ourselves.
