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From: "Lisa Lepore" <>
Subject: Re: [MABRISTO] Rehoboth School Master
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:35:26 -0500
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Hi Bob -

This is a great story. It's wonderful that you are
writing these down. I work with a woman who is
90. [Yes, I said work] She grew up on a farm in Upton
Massachusetts [worcester county]. She always tells
us stories about growing up then. You were talking
about walking to school in an earlier message. In
her neighborhood, there was a man who took all the
kids to school in a wagon in the winter. They had
blankets and heated bricks to keep them warm on
the way. An early school bus, I guess!

There is a photo of it a book put out by the Upton
Historical Society 10 or so years ago.

Lisa

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert L. Cole " <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [MABRISTO] Rehoboth School Master


> Hi Cathi,
>
> I have a loose leaf 4" thick of my whole life. I am still
remembering
> things. My Grandfather was a stage coach, carrage, waggon and slay
maker.
> Here's a story that comes to mind. He made us kids a 12' Tabogon. On
my way
> to school I had to deliver 75 lb's of meat to Bobbie Whites house.
It was
> brand new and I did't know how to steer it. I got to Camel Rock
cornner and
> couldn't make the cornner, Hit Camel Rock and spiled the meat all
over in
> the deep snow. I had to walk 1and 1/2 miles back to the house to get
my
> grandfather.
> When we got back to the rock some animals had gotten some of the
meat. My
> grandfather road with me the 2 1/2 miles and showed me how to steer.
>
> Toodle Bob
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kathi Reilly" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 12:10 PM
> Subject: RE: [MABRISTO] Rehoboth School Master
>
>
> Bob,
>
> If you haven't already, please consider writing down your childhood
> experiences and donating it to a library or historical center. A
future
> genealogist (maybe not even born yet!) would appreciate reading a
first-hand
> account of life in the 1930's.
>
> Kathi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert L. Cole [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 10:47 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [MABRISTO] Rehoboth School Master
>
>
> Jim I was just reading daves note. 70yrs. ago in my school we had no
bible.
> just the flag. All kids except handy caped went to school. If you
dallied to
> school, you got the ruler on an open hand.I lived a little over
three miles
> from school. We walked with the snow above our knees. We used
bobsleds
> tabogon and jumpers (A 1 runner with cross board for seat. when you
got
> going one put the feet on top of the runner. Sometimes it was dark
going to
> and from school.
> In the morning was reading and writing (All grades). After lunch,
was math
> 2ed through 8th. 1 st grade had reccess in the school yard till the
bell to
> go home. Picked up my tin milk can ane went home with the older
kids.
> That's how it was in my town.I heard many stories from my Great
Grandparents
> about there school days.
>
> Latter Bob.
>


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