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Chuck Hinman. IJMA No. 016: Twenty froggies went to school Chuck Hinman. It's Just Me Again No. 016. The Happy Story for the Week: Twenty Froggies Went To School The next earlier Chuck Hinman story: Borrowing Stuff Is Chuck Hinman your favorite Sunday with CM columnist, as many tell us? If so, we hope you'll drop him a line by email. Reader comments to CM are appreciated, as are emails directly to Mr. Hinman at: charles.hinman@sbcglobal.net By Chuck Hinman I just received an e-mail from a writing club friend in which she writes of her recent trip to the Nebraska State Fair in Lincoln. She shared some of her "going to the fair" experiences over the years. Her e-mail reminded me of the time in the early 1930's, when our country school entered a float in the Gage County, Nebraska country school parade. It was in connection with the yearly Gage County Fair. Our float was built around a song, "Twenty Froggies Went to School." I haven't a clue how our teacher knew of that song or how she came up with the idea of using it as the theme of our entry in the fair parade in Beatrice, Nebraska 75 years ago! My memory of the song consisted of exactly 11 words so imagine my pleasure a few minutes ago when I entered the title of that obscure song in the Google search engine of my computer. I got a website that knew all about that little song! And to my further surprise, I heard a Mrs. Russell Vaughn's recording of the song. I was amazed that my remembrance of the melody was surprisingly close to Mrs. Vaughn's rendition. Mom was on the sewing committee to make 21 froggie outfits, one for each of the froggies and of course one for Master Bullfrog. The float was put together on a flat bed truck using bales of hay for the 20 froggies to sit on. In the center was a small water tank with some of the smaller froggies playing in the "rushy-pool." Each frog had huge bug eyes and a pleasant smile! All were adorable! Unfortunately our family does not have pictures of that exciting event nor is it written in my recently published book. It hadn't even been remembered by me until just a short time ago this morning. Our float from New Hope School District 122 won the sweepstakes prize. In addition we won the honor of representing Gage County in the Nebraska State Fair parade a few weeks later. The floats convened way out east on "O" street in Lincoln, Nebraska. It was an exciting morning for our family who had three froggies on that float, brother Bob, sister Joy Ann, and myself. The froggie outfits were in an upstairs bed room closet many years after this exciting day in the lives of these three Hinman kids. Moths played havoc with the froggie costumes but couldn't touch the memories! Here is the song and words we sang (over and over) in those parades: Twenty froggies went to schoolI would give anything to know how my country school teacher (name unknown) knew about this delightful folk song. I loudly applaud her innovativeness and that of her school parents in this classy achievement. It makes me proud to be an alumni of New Hope School near Liberty, Nebraska. Aren't memories wonderful? GRRACHIT! Chuck Hinman This story was posted on 2010-08-22 07:44:05
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