A ROANOKE WINTER It was a cold winter that year in Roanoke. I remember that it actually snowed twice before Christmas - once in early December and again a few nights before Christmas. As I remember, Christmas was on a Tuesday, and it snowed about an inch on the previous Friday night, just enough to make the outdoors look Christmasy, and the Saturday grocery shopping a little slow. It must have been about '36 or '37, because I was about six or seven years old. The big pre-Christmas event was the pageant that was presented at the church on Sunday night. It was always held in the large basement below the main sanctuary, where Sunday-School met on Sunday mornings. We walked the half-mile to the church, because the temperature had dropped below freezing, and the streets that had been wet and slushy during the day had now refrozen, making the streets too icy for automobiles. We had to go a little early, because I was cast as a shepherd in the nativity scene to be presented b...
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