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Return to Plano Memories Index PagePlano MemoriesBy Brenda Kellow
ANTIQUES FROM THE ONE ROOM SCHOOL HOUSEOne-room schoolhouses were common at the turn of the century when my parents were going to school in Collin County. They were usually were small, exceptionally small according to today’s standards, frame structures with a wood burning stove, a bell to call the students to class, a teacher to instruct on all grade levels—usually first through the tenth or eleventh grades—and a room full of kids from the same area be they wealthy or poor. Mother said that they had learning days, but a short time each Friday was special for her because she and the other kids got to make some form of art. Her favorite was the class they had on making clay figures and animals. I know this was a class with lots of sentimental value for her because she saved some of those clay figures. There is one male adult with dark skin and hair in a long blue robe. Another is an adult female in a tan robe and reddish colored hair. They were Bible figures if my memory serves me correctly. Then she made some animals: a cow, a horse, and a goat. As I write this I wonder if it was possibly the main figures in a nativity grouping. They could very well be Mary and Joseph with the animals in the manger. I remember that Mother was sad when she told me that my older sister had broken one or more of her figures. Now I wonder if it was Baby Jesus? Mother is gone, but those remaining figures my mother held so dear that she made in her class in the one room schoolhouse now have a place of honor in my office. Today, it is I who hold the sentimentality toward those clay figures made over a hundred years ago.
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