K=D8HB wrote:
"Radio Hero" wrote

Hans used to walk eight miles to school in bare feet...

Actually only about 3/4-mile. Wildwood School, District 28,
one room grades
1-8, but rarely kids in every grade, average enrollment about
10 kids. Teacher
was Mrs. Isabelle Schneider. At 9th grade you went to "town
school" on a yellow
bus. During blizzards the bus didn't take you home, so you
stayed at your
"storm home" --- all the farm kids were assigned one of those.

3/4 mile? The schools I went to from Grades 1-12 were a mile away!
Little kids took the bus; after 3rd grade or so we just walked. Grades
1-8 was uphill all the way to school but downhill all the way home.
Grades 9-12 was a little rolling.

We did have 110/220 VAC, though. Sidewalks too! And the RESCO store was
on the way home. I still have some of the parts and books I bought
there.

73 de Jim, N2EY