No Hit and got Rocket Ship Galileo. The roads were frequently closed. A rural family was very much thrown on its own resources for entertainment which accounts, I suppose, the importance attached to monopoly. The College Algebra and Trigonometry texts exhausted the local library's mathematical resources. For many years I knew of the diary but didn't know that it still existed.
Memory plays tricks.
We played monopoly. Doris was a brat. Evidently my less than faithful memory did her an injustice. Her bad behaviour was only once worthy of comment. The smoking stove was probably the school stove, a coal burning stove in the class room.