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STOCKO
by Wesley Rider Illustrated by Carolyn and Wesley Rider Foreword By Dan Rider It takes a little work, a rope and a few shovels, rakes and brooms and imagination to build a ski lift and operate a ski area. Tales of ski trains, warming huts, sing a longs and those early mechanical marvels that pulled skiers up the hills, as told by Edna Northrup and Lillian Congdon in their “For the Love of Skiing” formed the inspiration for this work. The characters are real, ski friends and siblings. Chapter One STOCKO
  Stocko
is a fun place to ski and snowboard in my backyard in
Buffalo,
New York. My fort is the lodge. In the summer we have swimming and soccer.
Chapter Two Our People Siobhan Kidd and my sister Carolyn run the ski school. My baby sister, Claire goes to ski school. Kayla McNamara sells cloths and skis in the store. Danny Jordan and me run the lifts. My big brother Chris is race coach. Panders and Morgan are Ski Patrol dogs. Mom takes care of people that get hurt.
Chapter Three HILLS Our hills are: Seven Eleven, Scratch, Ache, Appocanuca, Snakehill and Estate Sale. My dad uses his snowblower to make snow. Chapter Four LIFTS
Chapter Five Events We are having the first Contractor’s Snowboarding Day. We have a carnival and
races.
Chapter Six FOOD Chris is our cook. He makes french fries, chicken and bones and brownies. French fries are free at Stocko.
Chapter Seven WELCOME Everybody is invited to Stocko to have fun. About the author and illustrators: Wesley and Carolyn Rider are 6 year old twins, avid skiers and kindergarten graduates of Tapestry Charter School in Buffalo. Wesley will read this book to his class. Wesley has a keen interest in the history of skiing. He treasures his 1946 picture of Warren Miller riding a rope tow at Yosemite and pictures of one person chair lifts. He recently found an old logging jalopy in the woods and wants to use the winch as a rope tow. He located the former Fish Hill Ski Area and next winter wants to ask to ski it. THE END
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We
have two rope tows, three tee bars, two one person chairlifts, two two person
chairlifts, four three person chairlifts and two four person chairlifts.
