SEGMENT: CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, TRANSPORTATION, & FAMILY FARM
Irma Long>UIS Collection K-M>UIS Collection K-M, Segment 5
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- CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
- Talks of walking & riding a pony 1.25 mile to school. Always rode horse to high school. Cut through pastures to school. Aunt gave her first pony to ride to school in 2nd grade. Description of schoolhouse & teacher's janitorial work. Mentions outhouse & carrying water in from water pump. Discussion of how subjects were taught in one room with 8 grades. Mentions curriculum & work compared to today. Had snowball fights & rode sleds in winter. Broke glasses first day of school.
- TRANSPORTATION
- General discussion of roads. Most were dirt before Route 111 was paved. Always had an automobile. Got stuck a lot on bad roads.
- FAMILY FARM
- Notes she & her parents lived with her grandfather - it was his farm.
- TRANSPORTATION
- Does not remember name of automobile first owned, but does remember buggy rides with mother.
- CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
- Discussion of differences between high school and one room schoolhouse. Got to wear high heels. Give location of grade school & high school. Lists school sports activities. Mentions taking typing class after school that she enjoyed. Mentions lunches at school. Discusses social activities in high school, mainly dancing to ballroom music. Notes neither her father or her husband like to dance. She sometimes stayed at friends house in town to go to dances. Graduated in 1936.
