Letter by Phyllis Carnahan, Sept. 5, 2000, an excerpt from “Remembering Solon: A community and family history of Solon Township.’’ There was little juvenile delinquency because our parents wouldn’t put up with it. We were spanked if we did wrong, and besides that, we all worked.
We all had chores at home, girls having to help with cleaning and cooking, and the boys had their jobs to do, mostly outside work. Also, we worked at real jobs; I worked at the Cedar State Bank and at the Cedar Depot during my school vacations, doing minor clerical work. Most of the girls worked as waitresses at the resort hotels in the summer.
I think I was about 12 when I started at the Nicholas Hotel in Leland. We had potato vacation in the fall when the kids would pick up potatoes at the neighboring farms. Also, we picked cherries in season.
