O.. The Old Schoolhouse

O. The Old Schoolhouse

Eugene Glender: You can park right out here. This is where that old school used to be.

Bob Zybach: Okay, this is the Kirk driveway here probably. And was that Kirk's house right there?

Eugene Glender: I think that's where it was.

Bob Zybach: Okay. So that house would go back at least to the 1 930's?

Eugene Glender: Ithinkso.

Jan Meranda: [Jan] I think so, too.

Bob Zybach: It looks like an older house f not real old. Now those oak must have been here in those days.

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: And that fir tree. Can you remember anything else about this here?

Eugene Glender: No.

Bob Zybach: Was there more oaks on the hill or look about the same?

Eugene Glender: I think there was more brush and stuff around here at that time, but I don't know, I can't ... it's hard to tell anymore, it's ... stuff changed so much up through here. You know, different places, I don't remember what it was like anymore.

Bob Zybach: Were these fences along this side here, were they split rail in those days?

Eugene Glender: No.

Bob Zybach: This was wire fence then?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Was it barbed wire or woven wire like this?

Eugene Glender: Yeah, woven.

Bob Zybach: So they look pretty similar now to what it used to be?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: How about along the slough through there and that area, was that

Eugene Glender: It was all wire fence.

Bob Zybach: That was all fenced off too?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: And was woven wire?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Just kind of like the stuff we're looking at right here?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Okay. Were the trees about the same through there?

Eugene Glender: Yeah, I don't think anybody's bothered any of the trees along the creek.

Bob Zybach: We've got kind of a drainage, a little marsh area off here to our right, do you know anything about that at all?

Eugene Glender: No, it's just a ditch coming down off the hill.

Bob Zybach: Okay.

Bob Zybach: Jan, what's the mileage right here?

Jan Meranda: [Jan] Thirteen point nine.

Bob Zybach: Okay, 13.9, we're looking at three fir trees and then behind them north and east about 150 ftet is an oak tree and in between is a swale with some brush, can you tell me where the school used to be in relation to those?

Eugene Glender: I think the school used to set right out in here.

Bob Zybach: Right between us and the oak tree?

Eugene Glender: Ithinkso.

Jan Meranda: [Jan] Where that little lump is out there?

Eugene Glender: Yeah, apparently.

Bob Zybach: Up on the hill?

Eugene Glender: Right close to that.

Bob Zybach: Did you ever go to that [Soap Creek] school?

Eugene Glender: No.

Bob Zybach: Was it still standing when you were a kid?

Eugene Glender: Yeah. Because after they built the other school they moved out some people that lived in there.

Bob Zybach: Do you remember that family's name?

Eugene Glender: Not any more.

Bob Zybach: Did they farm around here?

Eugene Glender: No. I think he worked out for a living.

Bob Zybach: Could he have worked at like Govier's, or something, or

Eugene Glender: I don't know what he done. I think some of the time this guy worked for Mallow, cut wood, and drove truck, and stuff like that.

Bob Zybach: Worked for Mallow? Did he have any land to speak of?

Eugene Glender: He didn't. All he had was just that house; I think he rented the house.

Bob Zybach: Okay. How did you know it was a school before then? Did you go there?

Eugene Glender: No. When they left down there they went to school here.

Bob Zybach: Oh, I see, this is the kids when you said they went up Soap Creek to go to this one.

Eugene Glender: Yeah, they went to this one, and see, they built that new one up here.

Bob Zybach: So this was the one before the new one?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Oh, so maybe the picture I've got in the book that shows a school built in 1899 might have been right here?

Eugene Glender: Could have been.

Bob Zybach: I see, so this ... was this called the Soap Creek School?

Eugene Glender: I suppose.

Bob Zybach: You can't remember a name?

Eugene Glender: Well, I don't remember any names on that stuff in here.

Bob Zybach: So this is why the Mallow kids, why you didn't know them so well ... they came to this school here?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Did this look like a regular school house?

Eugene Glender: No, it was more like a ... just like a house.

Bob Zybach: Did it have a little deal for the bell or anything?

Eugene Glender: I can't remember. I don't think it did. It might have, but I don't remember any.

Bob Zybach: Okay. Can you ... how far between us and the oak was it, maybe halfway or most of the way?

Eugene Glender: Oh, probably three-fourths of the way down to it.

Bob Zybach: And was that building there up until Camp Ad.air?

Eugene Glender: Asfaraslknowitwas. Ithinkitwas yet.

Bob Zybach: Okay.

Eugene Glender: Probably pretty. .. . I bet you it's in there where that mound is.