MICHELE NORRIS, host: Time now to take a short break from the news of the world and listen to a summer sound.</s>MICHAEL IVEY: I'm Michael Ivey. I'm a filmmaker in Westerville, Ohio. My summer sound is a screen door slamming.</s>MICHAEL IVEY: Before cable TV, video games and texting, kids in West Virginia played outside all summer long. Running inside to grab a gulp of water and running back outside happened 10 times a day. Multiply that by a bunch of kids and, well, there was a screen door slam echoing through the hills and valleys of Fayette County, West Virginia from dawn till dusk, from May to September.</s>MICHAEL IVEY: Don't slam that screen door was the catch phrase of summer when I was growing up.</s>MICHELE NORRIS, host: That was Ohio listener Michael Ivey. To write to us about your summer sound, go to npr.org and please remember to put the words summer sounds in that subject line.
Filmmaker Michael Ivey contributes the sound of a screen door slamming to our series Summer Sounds.