The Whistling Season,
by Ivan Doig
"Can't Cook But Doesn't Bite" was the headline on an ad in the
local Montana paper. A widower with two sons answers
in the hope that, after all, she really can cook, at least better than they can.
This brings not only Rose whose talents are exactly as the ad described, but
also her brother Morris who is a walking encyclopedia. Rose does major clean-up
jobs in the house and Morris takes over when the school teacher runs away with
an itinerant preacher. Reminiscences about the events of that momentous year
constitute the story told by the older son who is now superintendent of schools
for the state and is visiting his old one-room schoolhouse prior to a decision
on closing them all and thus ending the way of life they represent.
-Nancy
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