A Special Festival
A Special Festival A Special Festival School was nearly out for the summer, and Zeke didn't know what he would be doing during vacation. Last summer had been very exciting for Zeke. He went to the Bahamas to visit Gramps, and it was one of the best summers of his life. It was the first time he had flown in an airplane. He went fishing with Gramps every morning. He helped cook fish over an open fire. He swam in the ocean every day. One night he even slept outside under the stars. And if all th
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A Special Festival
A Special Festival
School was nearly out for the summer, and Zeke didn't know what he would be doing during vacation.Last summer had been very exciting for Zeke.He went to the Bahamas to visit Gramps, and it was one of the best summers of his life.It was the first time he had flown in an airplane.He went fishing with Gramps every morning.He helped cook fish over an open fire. He swam in the ocean every day.One night he even slept outside under the stars.
And if all that wasn't exciting enough, thanks to Gramps, Zeke's trip was full of music!
Gramps was a musician and played in a band.He played a drum called the goombay drum.Gramps showed Zeke how he had made the drum himself by stretching goatskin over a metal container.
When it was time to play, Gramps heated the drum to tighten the goatskin.It made the drum sound very deep.Zeke could not believe the sound of Gramps' s drum.
Gramps let Zeke play the drum only at home.When the band played at parties, Gramps kept the goombay drum right by his side.
Now a year had passed, and Zeke began to think about visiting Gramps again.As soon as summer vacation began, Zeke asked Mom, "Can I go to the Bahamas to see Gramps this summer?"
"No, not this summer, Zeke," said Mom, with a grin.Then she saw how disappointed Zeke looked.She added, "Maybe the Bahamas will come to you."
"What do you mean?" asked Zeke, but Mom wouldn't say anything more.
Later that day, Zeke asked Dad the same question, but Dad just answered, "Wait and see."Of course, that made Zeke even more curious.How could the Bahamas come to him?
What was even more mysterious was that Dad brought home some colorful cloth and bright feathers.Every night for a week, Zeke could hear Dad sewing on the machine.
What is going on? thought Zeke.He tried to find out what Dad was doing, but Dad kept him out of the sewing room.
Mom's cooking in the kitchen was just as strange.She often made a small pot of conch chowder for the family's dinner.A conch is a kind of shellfish that you find in the Bahamas.But now Mom was cooking giant pots of chowder and storing silver cans of it in the freezer.
"Is the ocean running out of conch?" joked Zeke."Who is going to eat all that chowder?" Mom laughed but wouldn't explain.
