Seldom were the parents too far away from the ice to mediate the occasional brawl. Between periods, Phyllis Trudeau operated the concessions.
Winters are long in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
And a lot more than in most places in the United States. An annual snowfall of 300 inches in Marquette is not unusual. It's iron ore country. Hydrants a little farther north are four feet high so the firemen don't have to dig away too much snow. Not exactly the place, however, to have the neighborhood kids over for driveway basketball games.