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BF I don’t know, I really couldn’t say.

AV Did anybody come to examine your ears or eyes?

BF Yes, we used to have a doctor come.

AV And the kids would go up there and have their eyes and ears examined?

BF Um-hmm.

AV Were there any other kind of medical tests given in that room?

BF I don’t remember anything else.

AV What did the inside of the library look like?

BF Well, they had shelves with books on them. And there was a desk in there, also. And a chair.

AV Were there places for the people to read?

BF There was a few chairs there. Not many. Just around the wall, like.

AV Any other tables? For the people to read…

BF Not that I know of.

AV Was there a card catalog someplace?

BF A what?

AV A card catalog, where it has on each card the names and locations of all the books in the library.

BF No, I don’t remember seeing one.

AV It wasn’t that big a place.

BF No, it wasn’t.

AV How many books would you say they had?

BF Not too many. No, I don’t think they had too many.

AV Maybe a hundred?

BF About a hundred books is all.

AV That isn’t too many.

BF No.

AV Was there any decorations in there, pictures of Presidents or something?

BF Well, yeah, that’s what they had, it was pictures of presidents.

AV Washington and Lincoln?

BF Yeah.

AV Anything else, do you remember? Was there a print of the Declaration of Independence, or something like that?

BF I don’t remember if that was there. It could have been.

AV What about the other classrooms? Were they decorated?

BF No, just the same as all the others. They had maybe pictures or something.

AV Usually of presidents?

BF yeah.

AV Different Presidents? Or all the same ones?

BF No, no, different ones?

AV Do you remember some?

BF No.

AV How was the tuition paid in the school?

BF They never paid tuition paid in the school.

AV It was free, do you think?

BF Sure. I never heard my mother say anything about tuition.

AV And how were the teachers elected to their posts?

BF That I could not tell you. I guess there wasn’t very many teachers on hand at that time, so I guess they didn’t have a hard time getting in.

AV Were they mostly local people?

BF Mostly.

AV From Eckley?