Index by: Story Name: The Green Line Fireworks in Covington Ice Skating on the Lagoon Main Street Methodist Church My Dad's Sledding Accident Some of My Best Memories Summer at Goebel Park Dinser Decoration Day Memories Main Character: Bryant, Betty (Schneider) Bender-Rigney, Kelly Dinser, Harold (Family) Main Street Methodist Church Green, Michael L. Haas, Ealie and Bertha Osborne, Carol (Griffith) Schneider, Walter

 

I grew up in the small town of Ludlow, Kentucky. My family moved there when I was only 4 years old and we lived in the same house on Deverill Street for 18 years. Ludlow was a wonderful community where everyone knew everyone. We rode our bicycles from one end of town to the other and back again.

At the west end of town was the Lagoon Lake. In the winter time, we'd all go down with our ice skates and play till our toes were numb. We'd wrap layers of plastic bags inside our skates to keep our toes warm but I really don't think it helped.

My grandfather William (Bill) Moore and my grandmother Mary (Todd) Moore lived on Bond Street in West Covington and would come down to skate with us. He would bring his movie camera and someone would take pictures of us skating across the ice doing our best moves: twirling, skating backward, and just gliding across the ice. One of the things I remembered most was skating as fast as we could and then "plopping" down on the ice and scooting on our rears as far as we could scoot. Recently my mom found the old 8 mm movies and had them transferred onto a VHS tape. There I am with my triangular shaped woolen headscarf tied under my chin in this enourmous knot, ear muffs, and coat down to my knees. Smiling at the camera for my grandfather, running as fast as I can on those skates, and "Plop!" "Scoot" and "Spin!".

What fun we had with our grandparents!.