It’s been many years since Carolyn Espel attended the Bryant School in Princeton Township, but her memories are so vivid, it could have been yesterday.

Espel went to the school for almost six years, attending with older sisters, Nilah and Betty, and older brother, Bob.

Espel said every morning began with the Pledge of Allegiance, and then the students went to their desks, coming to the front of the room as the teacher taught a class to one or more grades. The Bryant School was a little bigger than some of the one-room schools in the county, and Espel said there were usually three or four students in each grade.