That was a bad time for Pocahontas County. I always called it the year of the frogs. I mean, what else could you call it? There were frogs everywhere. They"d even plop in the house if anyone was fool enough to leave a door open.
It used to be folks in Pocahontas didn"t really think much about frogs, except to sit out in an evening and listen to them croak. True, some people were afraid of them. I remember Norma Larsen wouldn"t take Biology in high school just because they had to dissect frogs, and Maggie Thompson once went right through the screen door when her little boy tried to give her one. But most people were sensible like me, Elvie Feddermann. To them a frog was simply a creature that eats insects, and believe you me in the hot, muggy, summer months of southern Iowa anything that e
