Carl Buckner shares some memories from his childhood years as a student at Training School.
| Andreana Briney in the sixth grade put into me a great love for poetry. She didn't know it, I didn't know it. But as I've grown up poems I leaned in the sixth grade still come back and I quoted them to my children and I quote them to my grandchildren. I don't have the soul of a poet. I just happen to have come to appreciate poetry because of her. She let my mother bring Popsicles to school one day for my birthday. Now that was a biggie. Maybe everybody did it but I just remember being so proud of the fact that everybody got a Popsicle courtesy of me. I was a big man on campus for one day. I also remember a Christmas pageant. I thought the gymnasium had to be at least a half a mile long when I was in the sixth grade and had to walk from the back of that gym to the stage up front as one of the three kings singing "We Three Kings of Orient." |
Carl Buckner shares some memories from his childhood years as a student at Training School. |