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Memories of attending Yellowhammer School

By Dave Rosenbaum

I took my first five years of school at Yellowhammer. The building had no electricity and we carried water from a spring on an adjoining farm. Learned which dead trees were most likely to have flying squirrels, how to find ginseng and blood root and where to harvest the best rabbit tobacco.

In the cold winter, the benches would be moved to circle the stove and sometimes a thin sheet of ice would freeze in the water bucket at the rear of the room.

The boys' outhouse was across the road in front of the school and the girls' facility was behind the school. The boys' structure wasn't nearly the quality construction of the girls' facility. The boys concluded that if they pushed their outhouse over, the board of Education would be compelled to come and build one commensurate with the girls' facility. The outhouse was pushed over but nobody ever showed up to build a new one.




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Yellowhammer one room school building



2020-02-18 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com.
The Yellowhammer School building, now across Yellow Hammer Road from Pierces Chapel Baptist Church, is in a different location from where it sat in Dave Rosenbaum's memory as a young student there.

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