We’d make homemade play dough together or mix together corn starch, water and food coloring to make sidewalk paint ... I did not have popsicle sticks and I didn’t feel like venturing out ...

Later, after nearly 20 years, Epperson was granted a patent for his "frozen ice on a stick ... Popsicles are eaten each year in the United States. And while fun new shapes, flavors and colors ...