Terryville Road School and Four
corners School are the two I attended in Harwinton. I
had many happy times at school.
My most memorable, or should
I say embarrassing moment, was at Terryville Road School.
It was at Christmas and we were having a play for all
the parents to see. Our teacher, Miss Butler at that
time (now Mrs. Florence Smith) was in charge and had
brought a very pretty dress and I was to wear it as
I was an angel in this play. She asked me to be very
careful and I said that I would. Little did I realize
what was about to happen. As most of you know, electricity
was not in these little one-room schools. As it was
an evening play and our parents were there we had to
change into our costumes in the outhouse, which was
dark. Oh, we had a flashlight but with two or three
girls in there we didn’t have too much room. I
got changed OK and when I went to leave the premises
someone quickly closed the door only to catch the dress
in the door. Whoops! It ripped. What to do? I finally
went back into the school and told Miss Butler what
had happened. I was so embarrassed that I cried. Her
remark to me was “Don’t worry Dear.”
She put a pin in the rip and the play went on as scheduled.
I told her I was very sorry but to this day, I can remember
this incident. This happened sometime between 1935 and
1936.