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Debbie: Do you remember anything about the school? For example, the kind of sports you used to play? Fr. T: Oh yes. They used to heat the school with wood. They'd hire men to cut the cord wood and then the children all had to pile it in the woodshed. They gave us a couple of bats and two or three balls to play with for that. And they put up a net for a baseball diamond. I just can't remember when they had a school fair. They used to have a school fair and Mt. Pleasant and Oakland and East... Joanne: In the fall I think. Mr. T: Yes. It'd be in the fall and we all had little plots. They used to supply us with seeds, in those days-- little bag of seed potatoes, or corn whatever. You had to look after it and they came and inspected it . It was quite a big fair too. They all competed and they gave ribbons and prizes. I remember each school had a parade... they competed and I remember we were all dressed up to represent the different countries. I remember one fellow dressed up like Uncle Sam and he put on a false beard and a big hat and they went to a lot of work and East Oakland won the prizes that year. Joanne: How ah far did you have to go to school? Mr. T: A mile and a quarter I walked to school. I think I started when I was about five. Joanne: Could you tell us about the school? Mr. T: It was a one room school and I think here was around sixty ah /pupils/ at some of the times. It varied of course through the years. It was fairly large, you see this school was supported by Townsend and Oakland. It was called a union school and they took the taxes from both places to support the school. Joanne: Could you tell us about the exact location of the school? Mr. T: Well, the location of the school is on the old Cunningham farm and they had the post office there. It was called East Oakland because they had to have a name and so they called it East Oakland. Cunninghams used to go to Scotland and get the mail and come back and then people went to their place and come picked up their mail. Then Mr. Cunningham donated an acre....The log school was in Townsend Township just across the road so they built the new school on this acre of land which is in Oakland Township, you see. So that was how they got the schoolyard, it was donated. They closed the school in June 1963 or 1964 and then the pupils in Oakland Township went to Oakland the ones in Townsend Township went to Boston. Joanne: Can you remember the names of any of your teachers?