hot in the summer and cold
in the winter. A large potbelly stove was in the middle of each room.
On snowy days the students would all sit around the stove and would
still be cold.
Bon Jellico
School had many good things going like P.T.A., baseball, basketball,
and debates.
When the mines
closed down and people began to move away, a few people were left
on Briar Creek. The Bon Jellico School was open until 1960 and then
it closed when many rural Kentuckky schools were consolidated. |