Her parents had moved east from Texas, and as a youngster Ingold occasionally traveled to their home state to visit relatives. Back at home, "I loved outdoor activities--climbing trees, trapeze stunts, and any game where the outcome hinged on fast running," she recalled in the
AAYA interview. "In the Long Island neighborhood where I lived, kids gathered summer days and evenings for races, hide-and-seek, soccer baseball, capture-the-flag--all favorites of mine. My most favorite thing, though, was getting a chance to explore the woods or poke along the edges of streams, and that took a family trip or a Girl Scout outing."
Fascinated by Texas Ancestry
Much of Ingold's work recalls a bygone era, and she recalled hearing stories about her parents' families from a very early age. "I can't remember a time when stories weren't a part of my life," she noted, "although they didn't seem like some separate thing to be identified as such--they were just always there, like family and board games and the wallpaper in my bedroom. My parents read to me, and they told me real stories of things they'd done when they were kids and of mysteries they'd come across.
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