HartfordCtrSchool

Comment by Robert B Bonney on October 21, 2010 at 5:08pm

I graduated from this little school house in 1948 or 1949 Mrs Doris Gammom was the teacher that I remember most, she used to bring me a homemade donut everyday and we had hot soup cooked on the old wood stove in the cold winter months. Looking at this picture I can see us all playing fox and geese just to the left of the big door in the picture.
Nice oicture Bob Bonney

Comment by Mary Pat Spaulding on October 21, 2010 at 6:04pm

Hi Bob - In the past I heard my mother mention both the Gammon and Bonney families living in the Hartford/Summner/Buckfield area.
I bet those donuts and hot soup were pretty special to you folks. And I can almost hear the dear sounds of children having fun as you played fox and geese. Write again. Tell me if that building still stands.
-Pat Spaulding

Comment by Robert B Bonney on October 22, 2010 at 6:57am

Yes it still stands I was over to the cemetery this fall and drove by on my way here.. I had a chance to speak with Janette Gammon today and we talked about your mother and the Glover farm which was just a little way from her house where she grew up. I lived with my father in a camp (two rooms) just down the street from the school and it was the job of myself and Bernard Chamblain to get the wood stove going on the cold days. Tell me what years did your mom teach here
Bob Bonney

Comment by Mary Pat Spaulding on October 22, 2010 at 8:46am

Afraid I can't help you with the exact dates she taught. My guess is that it was just about 1918 or 20...somewhere in there. (It is her photo that I use as my profile picture and the Glover farm is another that is shown on my page. I was born at the Glover farm and would love to have seen it again before it burned. I am now 76 and was not in Maine long so it is difficult for me to recall those events, but I love hearing about them. How old would Janette Gammon be? And yourself, if you don't mind telling.

Comment by Robert B Bonney on October 22, 2010 at 1:37pm

Well let me tell you she is old Ha Ha on Sat. next the 23third we will be the same age 75 but on Sunday the 24th she will be a year older all the way up to 76. I'll bet your mon taught my mother Katheryn Pinky Tucker she was born April 15 1909 and went to school in that school house as well. I have a lot of nice memories of that school and the kids that went I think we had eight in the class I was in.

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