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| North Lebanon Maine |
The day after Labor Day used to be when kids went back to school, not so now though, at least here in Maine. The photo above is where I started in 1946, 1st grade - that would have been the door on the left, first row of seats on the left, and I had five classmates. There were four rows of desks, one for each of the first, second, third and fourth grades, in 1950 I went upstairs for grades five, six, seven and eight. When my father went to the upstairs room it was the high school - I had the same teacher!
There was no running water, an outhouse in the woodshed, we had a wood stove, and two boys went to Fred Hanscoms well every morning for a pail of water; the water was kept in a stone crock with a spigot, we all shared the same tin cup - none of us got sick from sharing that cup. (I suspect that would be a real outrage now).
At recess we played a lot of pickup baseball, or sometimes we just went crazy. On my very first day of school I got a bloody nose. There was a huge elm tree in the schoolyard, I was running around it one way, Eldon Woodman was running the other way, oops! Eldon is a retired Algebra teacher now, so that means I got the most damage, nose and head - don't you think?
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| This is a fair representation of the schoolroom in Lebanon, this one was in Poland Maine - click to enlarge |
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| Nanticoke School, Union Maine |
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| Harriman Maine |
Tomorrow: Maine's newest High School!
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