Old Burnside by Harriette Simpson Arnow

Author:Harriette Simpson Arnow [Arnow, Harriette Simpson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780813188591
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

The wintry weather was always changing. Rain or snow would be followed by hard cold that froze the mud and scattered the clouds. I could then watch the sun going down and later the evening star hanging above Bronston. Other times snow fell in big wet flakes that stacked up to whiten the world, only to disappear within a few days of warm sun or rain.

Our father’s nightly reports were chiefly of rising rivers; the log booms were getting in good shape; there’d be plenty of timber to keep Burnside’s mills going. I asked what a log boom was. He tried to explain. I had seen a log boom from the hill in the lower town, but hadn’t known what it was. I still wanted to see one close up.

One evening after more rain, Papa told us the Cumberland was out of her banks, coming down wild and still rising. No, he explained to our worried mother, the tide wouldn’t be high enough to do much damage; compared to last year’s flood it was nothing. Somewhere upriver there had been a heavy downpour, but it hadn’t been over a territory big enough to cause a good-sized flood in Burnside. Mostly, fast and sudden as it was, the rise was making a lot of hard work for boom hands and log drivers.

I so pestered him with questions on log booms and boom hands that he promised to take Elizabeth and me some Sunday after church to see the Cumberland River boom, but not until things had quieted down in lower Burnside.

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