Child's Christmas in the Rockies

This is a story about what winter was like in a little town high in the Colorado Rockies seventy years ago. The mines had mostly closed down leaving the town sleepy and loaded with empty houses and old junk. The town could not afford snowplows, either. That was good if you were a kid. How so? Read on. It's free. (By the way, if you meet Dylan Thomas in the afterlife before I do, tell him thanks.)