MEMORY LANE

I found The Mother Lode of Learning, One Room School of El Dorado County a fascinating source of memories.  The section about Buckeye Elementary School was my principal section of interest, but many other sections provided memories too.  I remember cleaning erasers and using the outhouse, but drinking from a common dipper was before my time.  However, the memories of earlier students went far beyond that.  They reveal the ties that bound the small communities around the county together. 

One lady tells about staying with relatives for a year and attending the school in their community.  Others tell about attending school with cousins when their own school was out on holiday, some riding to the other school with the teacher, who happened to be a neighbor.  One teacher rode the morning train to Shingle Springs and rode another home in the afternoon. 

I remember some of the contributors as I was growing up.  Probably the best known would ask, “Do I detect and oscillatory movement of the lower mandible?  when he caught someone chewing gum in his senior English class at El Dorado County High School.  Mr. Ramsey attended the one room school at Pino Grande.

Come amble down memory lane with us.  Some of the memories are written by students when they were in school, another category has been collected from various sources and the others are from e-mail conversations. 

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