Why did grandma go to the Griswold place?

Why did grandma go to the Griswold place?

Why did grandma go to Uncle Griswold’s place in A Long Way from Chicago? Grandma goes to Uncle Griswold’s place in A Long Way from Chicago because she wants him, and not Mrs. Weidenbach’s father, to win the Oldest Settler prize at the forthcoming Centennial celebrations.

Why does Mrs Weidenbach visit grandma?

Weidenbach, comes in. She’s come to ask Grandma to enter her gooseberry pie in the local fair contest so that she can represent their proud town. Grandma retorts that she cooks to eat, not to show off.

Who did Grandma Dowdel Joey and Mary Alice see when they went fishing?

Grandma uses illegal fish traps to get catfish from the lake while using the sheriff’s boat she stole to feed to drifters and sees the sheriff’s deputies while fishing but they seem too intoxicated to understand the situation. “The Day of Judgment” – 1932″.

Who does grandma see off at the train station the day that Joey and Mary Alice arrive for their yearly visit?

Effie Wilcox
On the day that the kids leave town, Grandma accompanies them to the train station…but she’s not there to see them off. She’s there to see Effie Wilcox come home.

What did Joey do that brought one of grandma’s stories to life?

When she sneaks onto private property to go fishing, he helps her without a second thought: “Lift that wire so I can skin under,” Grandma said. Instead of being horrified by Grandma’s trespassing, Joey immediately lifts up the wire so that she can crawl through…and then follows right behind her.

How did Shotgun Cheatham get his name?

Upon seeing the results of Shotgun’s actions, the older boys took the gun out of his hands, for fear that Shotgun would end up hurting someone. This is how Shotgun got his nickname; despite this, though, Grandma maintains that any girl in her time could have out-shot Shotgun easily, so incompetent was he with a rifle.

What did grandma do with the rest of the catfish?

After they pass a large sign prohibiting fishing, Grandma recovers her sunken traps, which are filled with catfish, “the ugliest thing with gills”. After emptying the traps, she baits them with fresh cheese, and lowers them into the creek again.

Who does Mary Alice say Grandma is missing?

Grandma is at the depot when Joe and Mary Alice arrive this year, but she has not come to meet them. Instead, she is seeing somebody off. Mrs. Effie Wilcox, her “sworn enemy,” is moving away because the bank has foreclosed on her house.