Boys Playing Ice Hockey
| Three boys play ice hockey on a frozen pond. One boy has fallen and is sitting on the ice. Snow covers the ground, with some grass peeking through. A fence runs from left to right in the center. Groves of trees, farm buildings and a frozen stream are on the hills in the background. The boys are wearing trousers, coats, hats and ice skates. Each boy has a hockey stick and the puck sits on the surface of the ice. The following is a recollection from the creator: "Ice Hockey. On Sunday afternoons, in winter, my brother Ralph and I would take our ice skates and walk through the fields to one of the frozen ponds on our farm or on a neighbor’s farm. Jimmy Gies, our neighbor, would often accompany us to one of the ponds. Sometimes we would take our hockey sticks and a puck for playing the game, or just knocking the puck across the ice. One afternoon, I continue to remember with the chills of coldness and fright, Ralph fell through the ice and vanished from our sight. We located his hand and pulled him back through the hole in the ice to the surface. We made our way home as Ralph’s clothing was freezing to his body. I cannot remember reaching home, but the thought of losing sight of him under the snow-covered ice gives me chills to this day." |
| Image ID: | 101542 |
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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: | 1201000564 |
| Original Dimensions: | 4023 X 3220 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. |
| Youth |
| Hockey |
| Skating |
| Ponds |
| Streams |
| Snow |
| Ice |
| Children |
| Trees |
| Clothing and dress |
| Coats |
| Hats |
| Hills |
| Farm buildings |
| Fences |
| Land use, Rural |
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