Interview with Adair Boyle (85 years old) September, 2009

Attended  North Cow Creek in the 1930's. 

There were about 12 or 13 students, all grades, one great big building with a big stage and a porch with a water pump.  Mrs. Turner was the teacher.  We had lots of programs which used the stage.  The school burned because it was filled with cardboard boxes and they caught fire and luckily, most of the books and the desks were saved but not the building.  So then I had to attend school in a tent for a month until school was out.  We had to be in a woodshed in the fall until the building was rebuilt.  I remembered going to school with the Garrisons and the Chathams.  We brought sack lunches to school.  Of course there was no air conditioning.  We had a maypole dance at the Junction school where everybody met on the first day of May.  The teacher made crepe paper dresses for all the girls to wear for the dance and we all had big crepe paper bows in our hair. 

All three of my daughters graduated from North Cow Creek.   My husband, Carrol Boyle also graduated from North Cow Creek  His brothers all graduated from NCCS as well.