What is in your dream bucket?

Photo by Christie Marie Underwood, 2017

If you saved your money for a special vacation, where would you go? By stuffing money into a knee sock, I saved enough money to pay for a vacation at Mount Petit Jean in Arkansas, where our family went to see a long narrow waterfall. What a happy memory this is! In its own way, it was as beautiful as Niagara Falls, although it was not so magnificent.

A six-year-old boy named Buddy Benton wanted to go to Niagara Falls. Buddy, his twin sister Bailey, and their father Samuel placed coins in their dream bucket. Since some of the coins were rare, they were worth more than their face value. Because the time was the early 1900’s, it was possible to place coins in a bucket and have enough money to go on a trip.

This is one of the stories in The Dream Bucket by Mary Lou Cheatham. When someone stole the bucket, Buddy, along with the other members of his family and the neighbors, could not contain the oppressive disappointment. Did Buddy get to go to Niagara Falls?

The Dream Bucket