Wunderland
Winter of 1978, beyond Old Chip Mountain.It was a day as cold as any other in December when seven year old Jimmy and his nine year old friend Michael, found the place beyond the giant chip field and the rusty, barbed wire fence that marked its border.
It was on Christmas Vacation, only a few days away from Christmas Day itself, when they crested the top of the cedar chip field beside the Hidden Village trailer court. The kids there called it Old Chip Mountain, and bulging from the earth beneath a fresh blanket of snow it looked like a mountain to them. Jimmy and Michael had gone out early that morning, determined to battle and defeat the frosty specter of winter boredom, and on that morning Old Chip Mountain did not stand before them as an obstacle, but a challenge. They we
