A Winter to Remember
“Population density” isn’t a phrase that is associated with rural America. In metropolitan areas, many people live close together. I’ve read that some skyscrapers in New York City have their own zip code. Out in the country, statistics indicate that farming areas often have as few as one or two people per square mile. The wide-open space between points of human activity means nothing much happens there. Whatever one does in those unoccupied spaces is pretty much up to each individual.
In my youth, in a very sparsely settled area, one winter activity that young people liked to try was known as “hooky-bobbing.” In the simplest sense, that was the occasional unlawful grabbing on to the bumper of a
