June 2022 Newsletter
When I think of the weather getting warm, I think back to playing happily with my cousins on the playground of Eugene Field School, an elementary school in my aunt and uncle’s neighborhood in Sioux Falls, S.D. The school was named after Eugene Field, an American writer who lived from 1850-1895 and was known for his children’s poetry and his humorous essays. One of his children’s poems is entitled “Krinken.” Field writes: “Krinken was a little child; It was summer when he smiled.”