Karen Gaddy:  

Life My two brothers and two sisters and I attended Soak Creek Elementary School when it was a four room schoolhouse with two grades per room. We had four teachers,our principal was also our basketball coach. The female teachers sewed our cheerleading unifiorms and drove us in their private vehicles to our out of town basketball games. (Stoco and Slab Fork and Cranberry!!) That was when Skelton Bottom was Skelton Bottom. We had Field Day or May Day right before school let out for summer. Charlie Mills was our custodian for the entire seven years that I attended that school and remained as such for years after I had moved on to Mabscott Grade School. We had small book shelves in the back of each room and after that you went to the book mobile every other week if you wanted more to read. Our music teacher came once in a while. He brought with him an autoharp on several occasions and taught us Sweet Betsy From Pike. Our school cook made real corn bread and beans from scratch. All of the meals prepared in the school at that time were a blessing to many of us and the hand of love stirred the pot. For Thanksgiving the school kitchen served turkey with all the fixin's and we drew names fo...Expand for more