TAGS:\u00a0<\/strong>Education Community and Children’s Writing IIIE, children’s writing, education, humor, English language, community, family, Marguerite Butler, Fair Day, Margaret Motter, thank-you notes, Dorothy Nace, Burton Rogers<\/span><\/p>\n EDUCATION COMMUNITY AND CHILDREN’S WRITING IIIE is the third in a series of selected letters written by students, staff, and community. This page provides a representative excerpt from each of their writings and images of the full correspondence. For full translations of letters on this page, go to E<\/a>D<\/a>UCATION Community and Children’s Writing TRANSCRIPTIONS III<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n See Also:<\/p>\n EDUCATION Community and Children\u2019s Writing I<\/a> – Excerpts and images 1-20, 1915-1945. EDUCATION Community and Children\u2019s Writing II<\/a> – Excerpts and images 21-40, 1914-1925. EDUCATION Children\u2019s Writing (06, 44) Becky May Huff<\/span><\/a> 1918 & 1927 41. Maudie Creech to Miss [Marguerite] Butler<\/a><\/strong>, May 23, 1921. \u201c…Miss Butler, I have you to thank many times for getting me to go to Pine Mountain to school for I wouldn\u2019t know half what I do if I hadn\u2019t went. I love Pine Mountain. Don\u2019t you?…\u201d Mentions Grant, Mr. [Luigi] Zande<\/a>, MIss Parkinson, Baby Jeanett (sic)<\/em> and Miss [Ruth B.] Gaines.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n 42. Delia [Creech] to Miss Butler<\/strong>, Aug. 26, 1922. \u201cThe Victrola is at rest at present almost the first time since it arrived. I wish you could have been here when it arrived. I hardly think Oma [Creech] <\/a>touched the floor twice the evening it came.\u201d Also mentions Miss Gaines, Charles & Wilmer, Uncle Calvin, Miss [Ruth Ellen Metcalf<\/a>, Henry, Miss [Ethel] de Long<\/a>, Mrs. [Ethel de Long] Zande, Hulda, Ethel, Nora, Aunt Sarah, and Miss Robbins. <\/span><\/p>\n 43. Clara to Miss Butler<\/strong>, July 20, 1925, Chautaugua, New York. \u201cOh, Mr. [John] Philip Sousa<\/a> and his band has just been here…. They are just back from a tour of Europe…. I have never in my life heard anything better.\u201d Mentions Miss Gaines, Miss Menay, Miss Siler, Mr. [Darwin D.] Martin<\/a> in Buffalo, Miss Jeannette and Miss McCullough.<\/span><\/p>\n 44. Becky May [Huff]<\/a> To Mrs. Zande<\/strong>, January 27, 1927, Berea College<\/a>, Berea, Ky. \u201cOur Pine Mountain group has increased this week. Everyone says that it seems as though Berea is made up of Pine Mountain. There are nearly forty of us here.\u201d Mentions Thelma. For full transcription go to EDUCATION Children’s Writing (06, 44) Becky May Huff<\/a>.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n 45. Ella J. Lewis to Mrs. Ethel Zande<\/strong>, Oct. 8. 1927, Laden, Ky. \u201cAlice brought this flower from Martin Co. She brought you and me one apiece and they grow in water with a little dirt in the bottom of the pan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 46a. Raymond Holbrook<\/strong>, first grade, Incline School, to Mrs. Morris, Jan. 18, 1932, Incline, Ky. \u201cWe wish to thank you for the nice Christmas presents you gave us. We enjoyed them very much.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 46b. Waldon Holbrook<\/strong>, Third Grade, Incline School, to Mrs. Morris, Jan. 18. 1932, Incline, Ky. \u201cwe wish to thank you for the nice Christmas presents you gave us.”<\/span><\/p>\n 47a. Ernest Bailey<\/strong>, Seventh Grade, Incline School, Jan. 18. 1932, Incline, Ky. \u201cWe wish to express our thanks for the nice Christmas presents you gave us. We boys especially like the school bags.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 47b. Marie Nolen<\/strong> [?], Fourth Grade, Incline School, to Mrs. Morris, Jan. 18, 1932, Incline, Ky. \u201cWe wish to thank you for our presents…the sewing bags was very nice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 48.<\/strong> [Notation at top of page: \u201cStudent writing Ulysses Shackleford<\/a>, c. 1930 – ?\u201d] [Typewritten] \u201cFAIR DAY. \u2026 It was one of those clear autumnal days when the first fruits of harvest were ripening that the valley became astir with people. \u2018Going to the Fair?\u2019 — a day which we may trace back to our European ancestors as a celebration of the beginning of harvest\u2026.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 49. James Napier to\u00a0Miss [Margaret] Motter<\/a><\/strong>. [Notation at top of page: \u201c…1930s?\u201d] \u201cEnglish II. \u201cTwo years ago I decided to quit school. I was in the first year high school…I decided to go up in Ohio to try to get a job, so the first day I got there I went to work so it made me believe I were a real man and didn\u2019t need any education\u2026.[the foreman] put me a hold of a pick and shovel and told me to work hard. When he said that, my mind turned toward how I were going to live so I returned home and begin to school again and I never have had least idea at that kind of work any more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 50. Winfield Cornett to Miss Motter<\/strong>, Sept. 5, 1928. \u201cI were borned on Line Fork about three miles from P.M.S.S. I have worked on a farm pretty [much] all of my life. I\u2019ve worked in the mines and the log woods for to [make] money for schooling.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 51. [Anonymous poem, n.d.]<\/strong> \u201cSpring. …Wake up in the morning\/Look out the green grass\/and hear the milk boys whistlin\u2019 as they pass\u2026.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 52. Alice Minyard.<\/strong> [notation: \u201c1932?\u201d] \u201cThe Home I Would Like To Have.\u201d \u201cI want a five room log bungalow in the country. In the inside of my home I want home made furniture.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 53. Bennie Lorner,<\/strong> English 9th, March 1, 1932. \u201cMy home I would like to own. \u201cA beautiful home will win any beautiful ladie for a wife.\u201d Mentions Miss Foot.<\/span><\/p>\n 54. Gerna Bird<\/strong> [?], Bible 10, Nov. 15, 1932. \u201cMy Idea of Religion.\u201d \u201cAll religions are not the same but they may all be right. Religion is the principals or ideals and standards of any individual conducting themselves on earth\u2026.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 55a – c. [Anonymous]<\/strong>, Oct. 27, 1937. [Notation: \u201cI think these pages were for Miss [Edith] Cold\u2019<\/a>s English class. How he loved her. He writes about the cabin which I understand is not there any more. Mrs. C.W. Pennington. Raymond\u2019s mother sent these to me. L.B.(?)\u201c] \u201cI am drawing the plan for our log cabin that is going to be put up on the hill, back of the school house\u2026.\u201d <\/span>55b. [Anonymous, continued].<\/strong> \u201cCordell Hull is our Secretary of State. Hull Warns Japan and China on U.S. Ships and Nationals; Britain Preparing Demands.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>55c. [Anonymous, continued].<\/strong> Nov. 29, 1937. \u201cFriday, Clarence, John, Claude, and I went to haul the logs to our cabin that we had cut. It was sprinkling rain and we had a hard time working the mule\u2026.I think that there will be about five boys out of our class that will have to have their tonsils taken out so we want to get a lot done today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 56a. “EARLY GRADE SCHOOL, CHILDREN\u2019S & PARENTS\u2019 LETTERS”<\/strong><\/p>\n 56b. Jonnie Pauline Shoupe to Miss [Dorothy] Nace<\/a>,<\/strong> [n.d.]. [Notation at top of page: \u201cLesson – writing invitation\u201d] \u201cI would love for you to come down at my house and stay with me for a day\u2026.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 56c. Pauline to Miss Nace,<\/strong> [n.d.] \u201cWill you come and visit me\u2026.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 56d. Clark to Miss Nace,<\/strong> [n.d.]. [Notation at top of page: \u201cLesson – writing invitation\u201d] \u201cWill you come in to visit me?….\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 56e. Ella Lee Cornett to Miss Nace<\/strong>, [truncated date]. \u201cJust a few lines to let you know why I haven\u2019t been coming to school. My mother is sick and I mind the children and I have a cold\u2026.I sure do miss school\u2026.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 56f. Thelma Wilder to Miss Nace,<\/strong> [n.d.] \u201cWill you be here next year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 56g. Thelma Jean Huff to Miss Nace<\/strong>, October 29, [truncated year]. \u201c…My teacher is Miss Roberts\u2026. Everyone of us had the measles\u2026.\u201d Mentions Harold.<\/span><\/p>\n 56h. Grace to Miss Nace,<\/strong> [n.d.]. \u201cWill you please move Yvonne out of the seat with Mary Ruth. I don\u2019t want her to set with her\u2026.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 56i. Geneva Lee to Miss Nace<\/strong>, March 2, 1950. \u201c…I wish I could come and listen at those stories but I am too sick.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 56j. Mrs. Huff to Miss Nace<\/strong>, [n.d.]. \u201cI thank you very much for the picture of Thelma Jean\u2026.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 56k. Joanna to Dartha<\/strong> (sic)<\/em> Nace<\/strong>, [n.d.]. You ear the prettyst techer\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 56l. Mrs. Elbert Harrit to Miss Nace<\/strong>, [n.d.]. \u201cI am sending you the money for 14 mels [meals?] by Mary Ruth\u2026.\u201d Mentions Elmer.<\/span><\/p>\n 56m. Priscilla Harrit to Miss Nace,<\/strong> [n.d.]. \u201c…keep down Mary Ruth meals and send to me when Elbert gets a pay day\u2026.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 56n. Mrs. Boggs to Miss Nace<\/strong>, [n.d.]. \u201cSue Ellen got head lice from some one and I worked affel hard getting them off. Would like for you to not let her sit to clost to the other children if I am not asking to much\u2026.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 56o. Eva Lee Cornett<\/strong>, [n.d.]. \u201cMy teacher\u2019s name is Miss Nace\u2026.I like Mr. Rogers, he is a good man\u2026.\u201d Mentions Tommy and Bill Huff.<\/span><\/p>\n OTHER LETTERS<\/strong><\/p>\n 57.\u00a0Burton [Rogers]<\/a> to Dorothy [Nace]<\/strong>, Dec. 15, [no year]. [Notation at top of page: \u201cWould Peter like?\u201d] \u201c…We are so happy that you had the service which so fittingly prepared for the baptism of John Peter…. \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n 58. Douglas Reynolds<\/strong>, Kodak, Ky. [Notation at bottom of page: \u201cCirca 1947\u201d.] [typewritten]. See CHILDREN\u2019S WRITING (58) Douglas Reynolds<\/a> for full transcription.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nEDUCATION Community and Children\u2019s Writing: TRANSCRIPTIONS I<\/a> \u2013 Full transcriptions of samples 1-20.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nEDUCATION Community and Children’s Writing TRANSCRIPTIONS II<\/a> – Full transcriptions of samples 21-40.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span>EDUCATION Children\u2019s Writing (01) Brit Wilder<\/span><\/a> 1928
\n<\/span>EDUCATION Children\u2019s Writing II (58) Douglas Reynolds<\/span><\/a> c. 1947
\n<\/span>EDUCATION Community Writing (13) Henry C. Creech<\/span><\/a> 1924<\/span><\/p>\n
\nEXCERPTS: EDUCATION Community and Children’s Writing IIIE<\/h3>\n
[Excerpts have been slightly edited, but most misspellings have been kept intact. All letters are handwritten and sent from Pine Mountain unless indicated otherwise. See images below for complete letters. The following list of excerpts are in order of the image numbers.]<\/span><\/h5>\n
GALLERY: Education Community and Children’s Writing IIIE<\/h3>\n\n\t\t