WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE?(CNY)

From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) | Date: February 24, 2002 | Copyright information

Byline: Tom Pardue

Editor's note: Tom Pardue is one of the people who wrote to us to say why he loves winter. Here, he shares memories of his neighborhood toboggan gang.

I remember braving Syracuse winters as a tater tot, (precursor of the couch potato I was to become) lugging my 12-pound "Snow Master Blizzard Beater" shovel, with its solid steel blade and 3-inch thick oak handle (suitable for levering frozen Volkswagens out of snowbanks), clearing my neighbo...