Rupert Pennypacker wins the contest with Grandma's pie, but Grandma still finds a way to get Joey a ride in an airplane. Grandma switches the nameplates on the pies at the last minute. Grandma's gooseberry pie goes up against Rupert Pennypacker's in a pie baking contest at the fair for her town's honor and a flight in a biplane. Grandma uses illegal fish traps to get catfish from the lake while using the sheriff's boat she stole to feed to drifters and sees the sheriff's deputies while fishing but they seem too intoxicated to understand the situation. Cowgill that if his boys won't stop she'll tell everyone that she found a mouse in her milk, running his business to the ground. That night she turns the lights off and waits for them to come and steal she catches them and has Joey get their parents. Grandma tells one of the boys she won't be home for her daily milk delivery, knowing the boys would try to steal something from her. "The Mouse in the Milk" - 1930." The next summer, the Cowgill boys are tormenting the town by blowing up Grandma's mailbox or Effie Wilcox's privy. Wilcox and the reporter run out, but it turns out that it was the cat that lives in the cobb house who moved the curtain draped over the coffin. Grandma shoots the coffin with her shotgun, while Ms. Grandma's enemy, Effie Wilcox, comes too but then the coffin begins to move.
Grandma holds an open house for Shotgun and lies to the reporter by saying he was a war hero.
The first summer the children go to their grandmother's house, a reporter comes looking for info on the infamous man who has just died, Shotgun Cheatham. "Shotgun Cheatham's" Last Night Above Ground - 1929" (originally printed in Twelve Shots: Stories About Guns, 1997). A Long Way from Chicago is a "novel in stories" (or short story cycle) by Richard Peck.
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