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**Long Ago Wintertime Saturday Night Entertainment**On Saturday nights in the winter when Dad was a young boy that he would take my Grandpa and Grandma Nelson out with the horse and cutter or sleigh. They would wear warm clothes and have many thick wool blankets over their legs to protect themselves from the bitter cold and blowing snow. He would take them along the road, round the corner of the barnyard and head up the hill through a snowy field for a regular Saturday night visit with his aunt and uncle who lived in the farmhouse on the top of the hill.The entertainment on Saturday nights was to listen to the hockey game broadcasted that night. Did you notice I wrote, listened not watched? This was in the 1930s or 1940s. The NHL had a six team league. The broadcast was over the radio.He told me everyone sat near the radio with one ear facing the radio to hear the voices better. At intermission between the first and second periods, his aunt Alice made a special treat for everyone to eat. She would put popcorn kernels in a wire basket and shake them over the wood stove in the kitchen. The kernels would make fluffy popcorn. She would also warm some caramel and drizzle it over the warm popcorn. It was a treat for him to have every Saturday during the hockey game.And that is why Dad always made popcorn every Saturday night during the first intermission of the hockey game. We would always take a small bowl of popcorn into Grandma Nelson to have while she watched the game on her own television. She would say something like, “I thought I smelled popcorn.”The tradition continues. I still love eating popcorn when watching hockey games on television.© Stephen Nelson 2022 ... See MoreSee Less

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This house at 5 Vipond Road is said to be haunted. Anyone know why? ... See MoreSee Less

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Thanks to Jeff Dinsmore the old sign has a beautiful new frame ... See MoreSee Less

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