Document Type
Description Essay
Publication Date
1996
Excerpt
Have you ever heard of those child safety rules such as keep within view of your parents and do not play on rusty farm equipment? Well, we hadn't. Our private playground consisted of a pile of broken concrete and bricks heaped up next to a low hill surrounded by a weed patch and old farm equipment. One border was the unused kennel, another was the barbed wire fence, bent from years of kids scrambling over it, that surrounded the nearest windbreak of trees. The rest of the area gave way to open fields that separated us from our closest neighbors with miles of com and soybeans. There, over the hum of the drying fans in the grain bins, surrounded by the warm, dry smell of black dirt and the tangy summertime scent of the sunscreen our mother made us slather on, we played.
Recommended Citation
Carey, Erin, "Past Civilizations of the Backyard (1996)" (1996). The Valpo Core Reader. 216.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/core_reader/216