Ice Skating at Dunham School
| A group of six children play on a frozen pond on the right. The Dunham School and trees appear inside a fence on the left, and the ground is covered with snow. The school has a bell tower and door. More trees and buildings are along the horizon. The following is a recollection by the creator: "Ice Skating at Dunham School. One cold and dark March afternoon, we were skating on the pond beyond the fence in the field of the Duesterbeck farm. Suddenly I yelled across the ice to Bob, who was making a turn on the other side of the pond: “Bob loves Pearl!” This immediately caught Bob’s attention. He skated toward me at a fast clip and threw me down on the ice. My leg broke sharply in two places. Carefully tended by my mother, I spent the next six weeks at home on the sofa. On dark winter days for years to come, my aching leg reminded me of Bob and Pearl and the love I attributed to them." |
| Image ID: | 101540 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1945 |
| Creator Name: | Quinney, Richard |
| City: | Delavan |
| County: | Walworth |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Richard Quinney papers, 1921-2018 |
| Genre: | Drawing |
| Original Format Type: | digital file |
| Original Format Number: | 1201000562 |
| Original Dimensions: | 4077 X 3285 pixels |
| Loaned for scanning by Richard Quinney. These drawings are from a sketchbook created by Richard Quinney (circa 1980) at a time when he was "missing the farm" of his boyhood (circa the 1940s). Most of the text is from Richard Quinney, “A Place Called Home,” Tales From the Middle Border. Madison, WI: Borderland Books, 2007, pp. 1-38 (Originally published in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, 67 (Spring 1984), pp. 163-184. |
| Brickwork |
| Doors |
| Bells |
| Trees |
| Coats |
| Dresses |
| Hats |
| One-room schools |
| School children |
| Schools |
| Fences |
| Land use, Rural |
| Children |
| Play |
| Skating |
| Ponds |
| Snow |
| Ice |
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