We moved into a large, green shingle-sided house on Graham Street 2 blocks from a small Methodist university and 1/2 a block from Franklin Elementary School that had this awesome fire escape. It was an enclosed grey spiral slide down from the 2nd floor that the kids in the upper grades got to slide down during fire drills. I got through Mrs. Cranberry’s ( Cranapple’s? ) Kindergarten class just in time for the school district to announce that they were closing the school to general education students. The next year I started walking 9 blocks across town to Bent School.
Bent School is a very nice building that had been built as a high school and then was relegated to lower grades as newer high schools and junior highs were built. I remember my father nearly yelling at a school board meeting over the closing of Franklin School, saying he'd moved his family to be close to the school they would be attending. I was the youngest of three so his plan had nearly worked. For my part I was sorely disappointed I never got to go down that fire escape.
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