Programs, Correspondence, 1968, January-July (1968)

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- 61 - Little Mud. I am in the second grade. I am in hope that they can have Summer School here. It would help so much. I want to thank Flem Messer and Larry Myers for helping with this program, and also everyone else that is helping. I hope we can have Carolyn Stevens or Tena Evans for our teacher if they get this program in. I also hope our County Judge Henry Stumbo, will make us a road so we won't have to wade the creek. We would sure appreciate it. We took colds and had to be out of school because we had to wade the creek about two weeks ago. We got behind in our lessons." That's all there is to that story, but the sim¬ plicity of those words is moving. These children stun the eye of anyone who has ever seen them in their "natural setting." The hardships they en¬ dure every day of their lives is justification enough for any effort. What Martha Ann did not tell was that she must wade that creek four or five times, before she reaches her one-room school, and the same number of times to get back home. What she does not tell