Editor’s Note: The Chestertown Spy has teamed up with the C.V. Starr Center for the American Experience at Washington College to share the stories of local residents who experienced World War II on the Home Front as an adult or as a child. Students and staff have already interviewed over a hundred folks who experienced World War II abroad or on the Home Front. Fourteen students are continuing to interview local and regional residents this summer about their memories of what life was like for them during World War II. Please contact Program Director Michael Buckley if you have a story or an artifact to share at [email protected] or 410 810 7156.
Leona Van Dyke
“My father once a month would go down to Federalsburg and get his monthly allotment for gas and oil. He went one day to get his allotment and came home. He was very busy, and instead of putting it away, he put it under a tree out in the backyard. I spent quite a bit of time making mud pies out of those cans. . I used it all. I was probably six. I can still remember them because I got a hand to my backside that I should have known better.”
“Mud pies were okay because farm kids did all sorts of things like that. Dig a hole, get some water, and make mud pies. It would pass time. If you have fuel or oil in a can that made it even better; you didn’t have to get the water!”
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