The Schools

2010-05-13T15:57:00.002-04:00

Barnet Center School

(on Barnet Center Hill, before the Church, on the left, look for the stone wall - that was the foundation)

In the 19 teens

In the winter, the kids would slide to school. During noon hour, the kids would walk up to the hill above the Nelson farm and slide down to the center bridge. Lunch was as long as they needed to climb the hill back to the school. slide.

West Barnet School

Late 40’s early 50’s:

Teacher Katie Page (one of the best, if not, the best, teacher I ever had). I remember when I was in the big room (5-8) that a kid was digging in his desk, head under the desk top, picking at something stuck in the seam. Who knows how long it had been there, but it was a dynamite cap which detonated.stick of dynamite and it blew up. Katie called to the teacher in the little room (1-4), Mrs. Hutton, to watch us students. She grabbed the injured boy and drove him to the hospital. There was no waiting for an ambulance! He lost several fingers.

There was a turkey pasture next the school yard, after the farmer stopped raising turkeys we used to play tag at recess on the turkey roosts that were near the schoolyard fence.

We used to get a Christmas Tree in the woods for the school. The teacher asked the 7th and 8th grade boys to go cut a tree down in the woods. She expected us to be gone an hour and we were gone all afternoon. We found a 20 foot tree and it was so big, we had to keep cutting off the truck, a few feet here, four feet there!

When I was growing up, there were the five schools. There was very little interaction between the schools when I was a student. The 8th grade graduation was at the town hall, at the rehearsal was the first time that I had met some of my peers from the other schools.

8th grade graduation has always been a big deal here in Barnet.

The New School

Harold Dunbar was instrumental in choosing the location for the new school. He had tremendous foresight.

Bill Graves wrote the grant application in the mid-eighties that paid for the recreational field and concession stand area. Gordon Goss did staking and construction supervision for the field. Albert Goslant did the construction. All the material for the project was on site, so only bulldozing and grading needed. The critical part of the grading was the soccer field so the center of the field is higher than the perimeter of the field. This has always allowed for superb drainage. An irrigation system was installed as the field was put in by the contractor, Albert Goslant. There are irrigation valves along the parking lot side of the field, close to where the bleachers sit, that were installed to provide summer irrigation to keep the fields in superb shape for the conditioning and use of Barnet athletes. The more labor intensive parts of this project were performed by the Caledonia Work Camp. The back-stop for the baseball field was Chris Goss’s Eagle Scout Project (1989, before. The dugouts were built by Three River’s League many years later (2006/7/8?).

It was a huge let-down for the 8th graders (Andy Goss was one of them - 1989) that they were not able to attend the new school and graduate from it. The students were given an opportunity to graduate in the school and they unanimously shared that they did not want this. Since they did not have an opportunity to attend, they wanted to graduate in the Town Hall as all their classmates had done. The first 8th grade class to attend and graduate was in 1990..

Gordon Goss other stories...

Grandfather bought the Red Farm in 1905. It was already built. He bought it from the Brocks. If you go out Katie Larney’s Rd. there is a barn (house burnt) on the left. That’s where my grandfather grew up.

West Barnet School

Gordon Goss 03/05/10

Food

2010-04-26T11:12:00.002-04:00

Barnet 6th graders are interested in learning about the food experiences of former students and teachers at Barnet School. What was your favorite food? Do you remember the gardens? Did you have snack time? Did you get lunch from school or home? Did the school you went to have a hot lunch program? Were there breakfasts? Any memories about food would be appreciated.

The Village Schools

2010-01-25T15:46:00.003-05:00

Bus Stories

2010-01-25T15:46:00.001-05:00

The School

2010-01-25T15:45:00.001-05:00

Happy 20th birthday Barnet School

2010-01-20T15:09:00.003-05:00

Barnet School will be celebrating our 20th anniversary in the present building this year. We're calling it Barnet's Birthday Bash. We need your help but don't worry we're not asking for money. We want your memories!

This is a shout out to all my former music students at Barnet school, and to my own kids, Eve and Dan, to get your help with contacting your former classmates and asking them to help us gather memories of your years at Barnet. Please forward the link to this blog to your Barnet school alumni friends. My question for you today is: what do you remember about your music experiences at Barnet?

Thanks for passing this on.

Barnet School Birthday Celebration through Art and Music and Media across the ages

The Schools

Food

The Village Schools

Bus Stories

The School

Happy 20th birthday Barnet School