This building was the former Flint River (Wildcat) School.

I was in kindergarten at Wildcat grade school in 1948-1949. Leona Granaman Schmeiser, my second cousin, was my teacher.

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The core building looks the same with the same brick chimney. But the big bell has been removed. I was just barely five years old when I started school and wasn't ready for what followed. I would repeat kindergarten the following year.

There is a steep hill on one side of the building with a fence at the bottom. A bigger kid once shoved me at the top of the hill and I rolled down and hit a fence post at the bottom. I may have cracked a rib in that accident because I've had a lump on one rib most of my life.

I remember playing in the big piles of leaves in the fall because there were many trees around the school.

I also remember walking to and from the school on the muddy clay road and its two all-clay hills. We all wore overshoes and the clay mud would get on my pants. My overshoes would get so much mud on them that my two older sisters would have to grab my hands and drag me along.

I believe Mrs. Marlin was the teacher in the 1949-1950 year, and I had her for only one week or so before my parents moved and I continued at Zion School through the eighth grade.