P a g e 4 G h o s t T o w n s a n d H i s t o r y o f M o n t a n a N e w s l e t t e r Rock Springs School- Memories of Lois Bain Angvick From the 1st to 8th grade I went to school at the Rock Springs School, West of Reserve, MT. It was a three mile horseback ride from our ranch. Photo by Liselle Strassman The Rock Springs School was your typical one room country school that taught grades 1-8. There was a barn for our horses and a teacherage as well. The teachers I remember included Mae Hark, Marie Summers and Anna Walikonis. They taught us many things including music, singing and reciting poems. I remember playing baseball in the spring and the boys pushing us girls too high in the swings. In the winter months we brought soup to school in a pint jar and put the jars on the furnace to have warm soup for lunch. To get water we walked down the hill with empty buckets to the Mork place, filled them up and walked back to school uphill. I also recall having pie socials at our school. A pie social is where the women prepare and decorate a lunch basket which usually had fried chicken and a pie. The men had to bid on the baskets and whoever bought the lunch basket got to have lunch with the woman who prepared it. My favorite memory of all was when my best friend Rose Lossing and I raced horses at noon. We raced down to where the road splits and back. It was probably close to a one mile race. Half a mile down, half a mile back. I won every time on my dads Appaloosa mare named 'Appy.' It was fun until my dad caught on. One Saturday morning he needed to use the saddle horse and as soon as he got his foot in the saddle she took off. He came into the house and asked if I had been racing that mare and before I could even answer he told me, "Don't even bother, I know you have. I barely got my foot in the saddle and she took off!" Article reprinted from our magazine, Ghost Towns of Montana and Beyond Photos by Liselle Strassman at Abandoned Montana- Until They All Fall Down at: https:// www.facebook.com/Abandoned-Montana-Until-They-All-Fall-Down-672550499457568/ Photo by Liselle Strassman
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