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JULY 2012 Volume 24, no. 7
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The Old Grist Mill Tavern in Seekonk
A Historic Landmark That Will Remembered By Many The Old Grist Mill Tavern in Seekonk succumbed to a fire early Sunday morning on June 24th. Firefighters from Rehoboth, Seekonk, and surrounding towns joined forces to fight the blaze. See more photos pages 19-21.
Photo by Sid Bauman
“Remembering Rehoboth School Days” Frances Jones Shares Fond Memories of Hornbine School
by Leslie Patterson One of the things we most enjoyed in the ongoing oral history project on education in Rehoboth was interviewing a few Rehoboth residents who were students at Hornbine School back in the 1930s. Beverly Pettine, teacher at the Hornbine School historic site, interviewed Frances Magan Jones. Frances, who was born in 1922, got an early start in school, beginning at age 5 at Hornbine School. Frances: When I was five years old, my brother was in the first grade. He would come home to lunch and go back to school, and I would cry my eyes out because I couldn’t go. So my mother went to the teacher, Mrs. Hopkins, and she said to her: “This little girl wants to go to school.” And the teacher said, “All right, she can come then every afternoon as a guest and sit quietly.” So that is what I would do. When I started in the first grade, I remembered everything that had gone on, so I would help the younger ones that had just come in. I would help them with their reading and writing and the teacher would let me do this because I was helping her so she could tend to other students. When I went back to attend the first grade, I was so advanced in knowing what was going on that at the end of December, the teacher and the superintendent Mr. Whitman called me up to the desk and gave me an oral exam. continued on page 6...