Teachers

Mrs. O'Connor read a story to the second grade class:  Tal- and his Adventures in Noom-Zar-Noom" by Paul Fenimore Cooper.  (I found it in a library even though it is long out-of-print).  She was a nice woman, quiet and soft spoken:  one of my favorite teachers.  Her husband was a science teacher, and we did neat things like grow alum crystals and one time he did a demonstration that got our attention.  Corn starch when it is sitting in a pile is not very flammable, but blow on that pile in a can (through a rubber tube) with a candle inside a well, a you can get quite a big ball of flame.
     The O'Connors ran a summer camp.  We would make pot-holders, weave baskets, pound copper into ash trays (which I still have).  They made a drink, which I loved, they called it Okies Punch (grape juice and ginger ale).  I was so lucky to have known them:   a wonderful couple of teachers.